Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

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.

My turn shall also come:I sense the spreading of a wing.

I am sure I have summer depression

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

You talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing, ' Fermin corrected.

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.

I don't think I've ever been as scared in my life as I was to be extraordinarily honest with my kids.

Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train.

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.