He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

Noon - is the Hinge of Day-.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.

I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.