The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

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.

It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others.

One win is not enough to rest on our oars especially where there is room and opportunity for other wins and successes.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the Post, but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous.

So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.

Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so.

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.