The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

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.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Fear is a powerful stimulant.

Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.

We live life not only for ourselves but for others.

The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are, The second greatest is being happy with what you find.

I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin.

The commercialism may wash off sometime later.

All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid’s eyes

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

My gratitude to Ridley [Scott] isn't anything new. I named one of my kids after him. But he's a very important person to me.