So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

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.

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.

I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.

I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.