Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

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.

Running and chanting, the word change in the air like it's something you can grab and put in your mouth and sink your teeth into.

Death..." The voice dropped even more, black-gloved hands disappearing into the black folds of material. "Don't you feel it? We're all dead here...all...very...dead.

Those who are blindly led, blindly follow.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

I'm glad that I get to take my final walk as the princess of 2012. ...there's nothing wrong with winning an Oscar!

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.