When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

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.

Once you commit and decide that there is no turning back, you’ll find the strength.

Until you know that life is interesting and find it so you haven't found your soul.

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

The only way two ever live more cheaply than one is if one of them gives up what he or she wants.

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

Cursed be he that moves my bones.