Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

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 writings are the mirror of my soul and the dance of my mind.

It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.

My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me." -Lillian Bowman

When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.

As she turned to concentrate on the portal, Eve tugged on Claire's shirt. "What?" "Ask him where he got the boots." "You ask." Personally, Claire wanted the vampire bunny slippers.

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.