True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

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.

The only way to go back in time is by moving into the future

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

Incurable means curable from within.

We do choose how we shall live

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

I think you have to proactively seek out things that inspire you and consume as much of those things as possible.