Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

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.

Do not allow your resentment towards negative in this era to blind you into spiting yourself. We were made unique and should celebrate each other's life and the uniqueness that defines us.

Those who loves you truly will touch your soul not your body

Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.

I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

I wake up to my three dogs and my wife in bed and the kids, and those are the best gifts that I have.

He has always been a slippery little git! (on Joe Cole)

Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.