Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

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.

Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.

There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that are fooled striving to have everything.

Torture. He was torturing her. And she didn't want it to ever stop.

Beautiful gifts sometimes come adorned in ugly wrapping.

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today, ' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

Dwight Eisenhower was candid in private, but he was circumspect in public.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.