Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

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.

You should not honor men more than truth.

We cause havoc to our society when we only preach miracles.

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers...

I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

They sat it "Rains Blood" at scenes of battle... you truly...make blood rain