The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

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.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

Innovation is the creation of the new, or the re-arranging of the old in a new way

He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

I don't want to try to do music or satisfy anyone else's ears; it has to come from here first and what I love.

If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!