There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

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.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

I'm sharing my experience with my body with my fans, and that's why they relate to me so much.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

I never leave my house. Then I don't have to put a bra on, and I don't have to change my pants.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

I don't feel like I have a lot of reference to sexual innuendo on my songs.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it.

I think it's about time the world embraced its geekiness and stopped trying to be cool. It's just...you have way more fun as a geek than as a cool person.

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.