Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

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.

We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ...

Pride and self-hate belong inseparably together

I no longer belong to your ways. My religion is love. Every heart is my church.

My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

Let's not be afraid of anything that can't really hurt us.

In another life, I could be a personal shopper.

It can't hurt to have a backup.

Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

Seth told us good night and left. I watched him go wistfully. “Anyone else here feel like swooning?

Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.