It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

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.

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

Flying in space is a privilege, whether it's the first time or the fourth time.

Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

Now is now. Here is my treasure.

So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.

If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.

I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable.

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

Be the best at what you do