A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

It was never the way she lookedalways the way she wasI would have fallen in love with her with my eyes closed.

Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.

Everyone knew that bugs traveled in packs. Only the stupid ones got caught. The smart ones lay in wait for her to go to sleep so they could attack.

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.

No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.

I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations.

Gold is the corpse of value.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

Nobody should go through life without falling in love.