Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

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 feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.

The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: "Power binds us together." Power, for a while, makes us what we are, perceivers, luminous perceivers of reality.

And what's with the shirt? You think you're in Fiji?" "It's like being on vactaion. all of the time.

It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.

It's okay, Ig." said Fang. "Just give it your best shot." Sometimes the Fangster is incredibly supportive, just not with me.

The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.