Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

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.

A man with a victim mentality feels like being a victim who is complaining and crying all the time

Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

Fate always found its mark, one way or another.

Don't you think it's time to start giving yourself enough reasons to be happy with your life instead of reasons why living miserably is your only option?

The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.