A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

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.

The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

American culture is kind of an international culture, isn't it? British culture is a bit more unique. I think funny things are sort of funny around the world, really.

Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.

My take is this. The Republicans control the Senate. They have the majority of the House, and they have the White House. They can do whatever they want to do, really.

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

The feeling that someone owes us something, the pain for the harm that others caused us, etc., stops the inner progress of the soul.

So there's a few different ways that we treat insomnia. The first thing that we always do is we look at the cause.

We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.