There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

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.

Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.

Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

As Miss America, my goal is to bring peace to the entire world and then get my own apartment.

I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.