The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

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.

In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.

The party now is having my kids laugh and my wife laugh and my teammates. I want them to see me have fun and put it in a different way.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in?

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came