How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

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.

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.

If you always live with those who are lame you will yourself learn to limp.

With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

There was a time when country never used to do videos.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Marriage can be complicated.

If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live.