There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible 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.

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

I'm a horrible karaoke singer.

Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.