Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

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'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

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I love you and I will until the end of time.And just as she said the words, two bright stars drifted past them overhead and disappeared into the night sky together…

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.