Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.

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.

You owe the world a load of wisdom to dispense. If you lay hands on the grace, make it happen. They world needs you!

You are a curse in my life!

My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had.

We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.