Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

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.

My past is trying to catch up to me and I must continue run from it. It's the only way I can live.

I couldn’t just start killing people. That wasn’t really my thing.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.

I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.

I want to create something that you haven't heard lyrically before. It's part of my job, and even though some of my songs are love songs, I tend to talk about love in different ways.

I am my own investigation territory.

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.