The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

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.

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.

We had a lot to do with Randy being fired. If we were to do a lot better, then it probably wouldn't have happened.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.