Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

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.

What I truly believe, I will achieve.

Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight, party tonight.

I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.

It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.

Maybe all you can do, when your world is burning, is hold on to the thing you love the most.

I'm like a child who belongs to nobody.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.