Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

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.

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.

Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.

A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your body.

See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

I supported the assault weapon ban.

So. Are you guys here to convert me or sell me siding?

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.