What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

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.

The definition of freedom is that there is no dependency. Despite having the physical body, one feels no dependency.

May we live happily together in harmony.

a human body has a machine which he uses so learn how this machine works to get the best result.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?

And I've always been paranoid. I can remember as a baby my mother would spin the mobile above my head and thinking..."yeah, that's coming down."

Struggle is the architect of the soul.

I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.

Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.

If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.