An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?

When people think time is against them, they get a different feeling. No one however knows with all certainty, what exactly is in the next moment of time! Something can change!

I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

George Hendrick simply lost that sun-blown pop-up.

I can't even go to the dry cleaner by myself anymore. You're seen in public with anybody that you might not even know, and you're speculated about.

A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight, Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it.