We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of 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 heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

Try to think where you want to put the ball, not where you don't want it to go.

Architects need to restore and protect.

The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.