The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

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.

How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?

I’m expecting a miracle. Don’t taint it with logic.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Make love your weapon to overcome any evil

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.