Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

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.

Not all can believe anything they want to, because not all have the ability to believe.

Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

One who loves his community destroys community; one who loves its members builds community.

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture. The culture's what you're selling at this point.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.

How can I be my best if I never fail, and how can I ever find peace if I never yell.