What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

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.

I've pushed myself to push toward things that disturb me. I've developed a habit of recording these things because these things often disappear.

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

Your job is not done when you have determined your goal. You must also plan for and determine how it is to be accomplished. Goals and plans are meaningless if they cannot be executed successfully!

I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa.

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.

The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin