The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

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.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

She's so hairy - when she lifted up her arm I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit.

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.

Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.