Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

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.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better.

Work so hard that even hard worksays damn he is tougherthan me :)

Between friends there is no need of justice.

No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone... you answer it.

Nothing is more natural to me than horror.

Some directors are like it's their... nothing can change, nothing can move. I like collaborating, even when an extra has an idea, I like to bring to really have collaboration.

Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.