Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

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.

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.

The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

One of the things Ive learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness.

Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.