Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.

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.

Brave? Or stupid?"Roger shrugged. "I've never been quite sure where brave stopped and stupid began, myself.

The thoughts of Man build future worlds, whilst the emotions of the Fey build up this, our Natural World.

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

I was so happy every morning when I woke up that I was pissing smiley faces.

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.