Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

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.

If love weighs you downand casts a shadow on your lifethen it isn’t love.Love is light and makes you light.

The power of God set us free from every sin.

On grief. We know where we've been. We know where we want to be.

If the people in Europe are SOOOOOO smart, how come so many of them can't seem to locate the deodorant, huh?

To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?

I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.