Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

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.

And maybe that is exactly what happened…he walked away and never woke up…

I have a passion to do theater.

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

We can do anything we want to as long as we give it everything we've got.

Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion.

This deep sense of feeling that, 'I am' blessed can help you overcome any obstacle in life. It gives you courage and confidence and it will open you up for grace to pour in.