Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

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.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

Success is only possible to those whose hearts are willing and ready to embrace hard work

She made the beast rear its ugly head. Stirred fantasies in my mind I would have never otherwise entertained. Owning her wasn’t enough. Controlling her didn’t douse the inferno blazing inside me.

To hell with passive, inflict your passion on me.

You don't have to be surprised when the end comes - just read the Word of God and get the full scoop!

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try to be. They're not cracking jokes.

You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!

I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.