In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

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.

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human.

My mother once said if you can’t handle the fact that your world-view might be entirely inaccurate, you are not worthy of believing in it.

I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

[I like] Victor Jara and the music of Chile, and the social movement in Chile.

My head is my favorite swimming pool.

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today.

Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire.