Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

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.

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

She could have lived every minute she'd had with him better. She should have always spoken the best words she could to him.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.

You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.

Design really can be anything.

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

Golf is a passion that will stay with me forever. That's all I know.