The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

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.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Stop trying to control how you feel, and instead take control of what you do.

Lords of space and Lords of time, Lords of blessing, Lords of grace, Who is in the warmer clime?Who will follow Madoc's rhyme?Blue will alter time and space.

Sanji: That's right he's a rubberman Chopper: What do you mean?Sanji: I mean he's a monster

I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.

I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.

Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.

I don't know if I would call it therapy, but filmmaking is really the only thing I know how to do. For me, making movies is a way to bring on change for myself, and I really enjoy that part.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.