Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

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.

We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

Who. Hit. You?

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?

The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing 'tartan troosers'.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

I now stop feeling guilty. I let myself out of that prison.

Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.