We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

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.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall.

Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.

That word, confidence, was like butter on a hot stove for Darien, what he considered the most attractive quality in a woman.

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.

All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.