A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Trusting yourself means you dare walk alone.

Avoid hating people because you might have destroyed the bridge you have just used to cross the river

The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

You know, when you need drugs and you don't have a lot of money, what you'll do is you'll hang out with people who will give you drugs. Right?

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

We really refocused ourselves. I didn't want to live my life in a dark shadow all of the time.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...