It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

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.

For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.

You're never going to be ready"..."Don't you see that? You have to forget about ready. If you don't, you're always going to run away

The past is uselessto me now:an old suitcasewith mould in the lining, heavy even when empty.

The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

One must not trifle with love

A man with no enemies is no good as a friend.

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

I’m a dancer who cannot dance.

What else could I tell them? I like my women like I like my whiskey: 12 years old and mixed up with coke.