It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

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.

Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won't grow beyond your current self.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Escape is a commodity like anything else

No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.

I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.

People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.

Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.