If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

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.

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

What you become directly influences what you get.

Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

I just had a responsibility to [Taylor Swift] as a friend you know, and I mean thanks for being so cool about it.

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.

I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.