When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

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.

It’s time for a spring cleaning of your thoughts, it’s time to stop to just existing it’s time to start living.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.

Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.

America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.