Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

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.

Forever present, always knowing that you are the only one for me.

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.

'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.