Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

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.

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Only what you choose is what makes you.

The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.

You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.

We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.