Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

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.

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

There are too many windbags in this world. Speak only when you are competent in a subject - It produces dignity." - L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

The stubbornly doubter always wants to be heardby listens to nothing and misconstrues everything.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name." Patch to Pepper

You look at that movie [Dude, Where's My Car?] now, and you know exactly when it was made. And that's what kids were like then.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world. That's what makes it juicy!

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility.