You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

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.

I have no doubt at all the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins --The other kind don't matter.

We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices...

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.

‏@BretEastonEllis 31 MarAfter watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happening to movies was the empowerment of the viewer via technology.

I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

There is nothing destroyed by sanctification but that which would destroy us.