Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

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.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Whenever you get to change somebody's life or watch it and see it happen, it's amazing.

When you're a young player, you try to prove yourself with your numbers and you try to prove your worth to the team. That can be an adverse situation because you can try to do too much.

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

[On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.

Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.

I'm really conflicted about my role as a front-person. I hate the attention.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.

I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.