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.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

Fear is acceptable, as long as I don't allow it to cripple me...

He that walks into the political marsh cannot come out with polished boots.

At life's most significant moments, we are always alone

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs of his neighbor.

So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by.