It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

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 soul that knows it soul is sacred.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally.

You can't change the world you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

Obviously there's no way around discomfort, which is tucked into too many places in our lives. But it is possible to move beyond it.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Never, never mind your bleeding heart.

I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.