Medicine: "Your money and your life!

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.

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

I've been in a relationship for almost two years now, so I'm kind of locked in there. My mind doesn't even really remember when I was single, to be honest.

The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.

The size of the place that one becomes a member of is limited only by the size of one’s heart.

What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.