When our vices leave us we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.

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.

Creating the abundant life is achieved first by vision not sight.

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

The more we do, the busier we are, the less we really pay attention.

I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.