We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

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.

One thing is painfully clear-I can't trust anyone.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

Everyone dies. That is a universal constant. The only variable is how one dies.

When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.

You can go from having all your stuff together and really feeling good about yourself to really figuring you can't run a lick.

Donald Trump says he's going to change the no-guns policy at his resorts. I can't wait to see that.

Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.