Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

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.

God has no religion.

We should, I think, proceed to enquire into what we mean by ideals - or rather, to examine, critically, the nature of those acts which to us appear to be outward manifestations of idealisms

He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

Will ye come with me?” he whispered. And she answered without hesitation. “Yes, please.

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

Here we are, a man and a woman, both wanting the same things, and yet, you aren’t attracted to me.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.