The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

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.

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

Absolution is not the same as understanding.

a great publicity is a high way to remote customers and a universal key to the gate of ignorance

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.

I didn't realize how much me hiding my sexuality also meant that I hid a lot of just my identity as a person.

The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.