There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

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.

Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time.

Sometimes life is not kind, and most times we have to hurt deeply in order to find out how strong and determined we really are.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

Ive always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.