In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

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 greatest victory is the conquest soul.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

One of my friends went on a murder weekend, now he is doing life for it.

Women do get drunk, they do get sick and they do get food poisoning. It seems to be a bit of a surprise to people that they are seeing it.

I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.

He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.