Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

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 wanted to hurt in a way I understood.

Just because we can doesn't mean we should.

A misleading impression not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

There are more Democratic schmucks than there are Republican ones.

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.

I guess my claustrophobia is incurable - feeling, as I tend to, ill at ease in any closed room, and always tempted to find out what is on the other side of the door.