Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

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.

Truth is a relationship. As such, each one of us receives the truth and expresses it from within, that is to say, according to one's own circumstances, culture, and situation in life.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn’t learn and grow.

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

I'm so used to hate that I'm starting to embrace it.

To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation