We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

To have your music used on television and in movies, that's our way of getting it across to people. We're not on the radio all the time. It's the only way to get your music heard.

What we want is not always what we need.

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me.

It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

Faith is under the left nipple.

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

I'll usually run an ice-cube over my skin to close all the pores. That's pretty much my daily routine.

I want to be a major force.