If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

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.

Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do.

Swing hard in case you hit it.

The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.

When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

I like being straightforward. We can deal with anything as long as it's on the table.