There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

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.

I want to know if we are the same, in the moments when we’re stripped bare.

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

Houses are built to live in and not to look on.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

The people that hurt you are the ones you love because you are the most open to them.

Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better.

Reality is an acquired taste.