The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

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.

Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it

I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.

Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.

The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.