Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

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.

Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

When I visited Auschwitz I was horrified. And when I visited Iraq, I thought to myself, 'What will we tell our children in fifty years when they ask what we did when the people in Iraq were dying.'

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

I'm suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last.

You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.