On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

Here. There. Everywhere. Somewhere. Home.

As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!

Love, when released into the world, is like an intelligent energy that continues on and on, shaping the world in its own image.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

Everybody understands a slap in the face. In Japan, Belgium, or America, a punch is a punch. Comedy will be different in Europe or America or Japan, so my movies are very international.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.

Every picture one paints involves not painting others.