Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

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.

The miracle of life is indescribable .

He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she’d fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts in this cemetery.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

Be pleased to look forward, And pleased to look behind, Count today, your 40th, and each birthday With a grateful mind.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was like, "I could come up with better stories than this." And I've wanted to write films ever since.

There are times in my life where I've had boyfriends or girlfriends.

He is inexperienced, but he's experienced in terms of what he's been through.