Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

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.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning.

No force but love can impel one to step willingly into the shadows so that the other may shine.

What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.

"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

How does hating get started? It's started by the jealous people, and they get mad over the things you have.

Pleasant words are the food of love.