Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

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.

Flirting with random women in a tavern? That sounds like Helios. Well, it sounds like most of the gods, actually.

A quiet woman is a firearm with a silencer.

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.

When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.

As long as we are not living in harmony with nature and our constitution, we cannot expect ourselves to be really healed. Ayurveda gives us the means

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

I'm basically always on tour.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.