None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

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've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.

Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.

To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.