We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

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 believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.

The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

I love the jacket with a varnish finish, a bomber. I adore the proportions, with the tight skirt, no stockings, very sexy - skirt to the knee.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.