We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

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.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Kelly closed his eyes and began to bargain with God.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

When you're tired of what you got, try me

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.