Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

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.

I've been playing music most of my life.

When you strengthen your self-esteem, there is no room for jealousy.

The one close to me now; even my own body--these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

As for hot songs...there are five in Dhoom 3, and I hope they are all hot!

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

Now you’re thinking like me. A little eye-gouging, some slit nostrils…I could seriously get into that. (Acheron)