Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.

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.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.

If all you do is talk crap, I'll just flush the toilet.

The movement of Soul beyond the human senses is such a natural process that one is likely to overlook it in its simplicity.

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

You can’t second-guess baseballyou can’t second-guess yourself.

I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.

I've had tremendous success...I'm very lucky.