The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.