Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

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.

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.

I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

You should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too.

By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.