When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

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.

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.

Change is constant in a progressive country.

In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

The only ache people have nowadays is ache in the stomach due to over eating and lack of exercise!

Instead of asking Him to remember you, why not pray to find comfort and value where He has taken you.