The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

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.

Discover yourself, discover what God has called you for, and find your place in life, so that you can fulfill God’s purpose for your life

You make my heart shake bend and break

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Web-site creation isn't something you learn once and then check off on your to do list.

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear.

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.