The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

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.

People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that’s the job of vision.

Forgetting nature is like forgetting your mother. Remember you are a child of nature. You are connected to it and belong to it. So don’t forget to protect her.

Never dare to sell your soul for money, because no amount of wealth would buy you an air conditioner in hell.

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.