It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

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.

In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

I never not wanted to become an actress.

The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

I'm distressed to hear you think that judges or the Supreme Court is an organ of a party. That, to me, is just - I know you feel that way. And that distresses me.

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I want.

I don't dream about anyone - except myself

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.