Hope deceitful as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.

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.

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God.

All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is a subtle form of disease.

When you strive to possess, there is always a reward waiting for you both in heaven and on earth.

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

I take classified materials very seriously and always have.

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries.