Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

Do not expect anything from any one.

Winter, I wrote, was akin to living inside a refrigerator.

I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things.

Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.

I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that’s just what I’ve gone and done.

Hi,' I said, and I hugged her. I missed her more now that I actually had her in my arms than when I hadn't.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.