A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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.

Holding on to grudges holds you back from achieving success.

Sleep faster we need the pillows.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

What is fear of need but need itself?

Welbeck is not the standard required at Manchester United.

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

I think the media argues all the time with itself.

I've grown used to being lonely over the years, so I don't seek to change it. But aren't there many people who are lonely?