Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

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.

Isn't that the tragic thing about women? That we live on long after our passions have died?

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

The soul's smile is better than the heart's grin.

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

For many years I have been a night watchman of the Milky Way galaxy.

If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.