When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

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.

Nixon was by nature a excluder. Halderman like to exclude people. When Nixon's need met Halderman's abilities, you had the most perfect formula for disaster. – Jim Shepley

The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.

A man's palate can in time become accustomed to anything.

As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

I don't consider genre while writing.

Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.

I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' "It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.