Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

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.

There is a big difference between being centered and being self-centered

It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

The one who rises from the bottom is not frightened of lessening existence, and getting back up again.

You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.

They were wearing smelly blankets, they looked like Donovan fans.

It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.