Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

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.

...Matt. I didn't think they'd kill you... I'm so sorry...

Injustice is a sixth sense and rouses all the others.

If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?

It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

Joy is the highest expression of love.

No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.

Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.