To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

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.

i am anearthquake& dancemost heavilyupon all myfaults.

Be fearless to live life.

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.

It's strange to be here, the mystery never leaves you alone".

It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit.

Lifes too short to live the same day twice.

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible.

In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man's hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!

My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn’t transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy?]

The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.