It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

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.

Sometimes we don't get second chances. Sometimes things just end.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

TV is my first love and I haven't disappeared from it totally.

If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

It feels good to know that I am safe and I am loved.

I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.

I sit before flowers 
hoping they will train me in the art 
of opening up