The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

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.

My father chose my name, and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way

Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others.

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!

I do not believe in miracles, I rely on them.

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

Important benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way.

I have lived in my body for years and still need maps and lights to find my way to how I feel.

When I watch TV I can tell when someone is punching the joke and telling me when to laugh (I’ll decide when to laugh, thank you very much).

One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.