A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.

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.

Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.

I asked him: Why didn’t you just tell me? He said: ‘If I tell you, you’ll just forget at some critical point. If you figure it out for yourself, you’ll always remember.

We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

Live the Dream, Dream the Fish

There is no future in waiting for tomorrow.