It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

To love makes one solitary.

Everyone has a story to tell, so why not let me put it on paper!

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

You can linger too long in your dreams.

But there's times when I like to find the strange angles to something. People go, 'I heard a lot of jokes like that, but that's one of the most interesting takes I heard.' That's what I try to do.

Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

The fewer desires, the more peace.