The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

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.

Going insane would be worse than dying. At least death is clear and final

A house is a machine for living.

Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.

I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.

If you ask me, it doesn't matter what life you're living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place.

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard.

Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.