In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

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 measure of a man is his state of mind.

We both know dad was my parental trash can, the fatherly receptacle on whom I dumped my emotions.

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

The pace of this match is really accelerating, by which I mean it's getting faster all the time.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.

In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.

Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that's what you wish) We make the rules on size and time.