Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of 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.

And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?

The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

I'm not going to let go of hope, I'm not going to let go of love, I'm not going to let go of God.

The door to happiness opens outward.

Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

I keep thinking the bad guys will win in the end and take it all away, but somehow it all seems to keep working.