We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.

Birth is to celebrate, death is to mourn - Menu 8 (Death: Loved Ones!)

That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep.

Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries.

I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.

What you do for money you do badly.

The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.

Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.