Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

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 stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

Our goal should be to achieve joy

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.

Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

Life is all about moments. No one in history has ever been able to hold on to one.

Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.