Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.

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.

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

I don't know why people say I'm not supposed to be doing what I'm doing. I'm just trying to do my job. I'm blessed, and I'm glad that I'm blessed.

I used to hate the sound of my voice.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects, earthly and divine.

Until one has given all, one has given nothing.

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.