What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

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.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

She’d forgotten to love, but she also forgot to hate. (about Clara’s mother, who had dementia)

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

I feel like I fight an aggressive style - smart / aggressive.

In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

We don't put the same amount of money in each stock.