The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

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.

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)

Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.