Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

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.

Magic is only magic when don’t know ‘how’, when you know it, it can be experienced everyday!!!

...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...

When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.

Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

Being president looks like the worst job in the world.

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

At the Christmas party, the secretary with the long red hair ate three pickles, and four salesmen panicked.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.