It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

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.

Don't wait for a perfect husband, love a man endlessly to make him perfect.

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

There is a shotgun wedding going on and its between Marketing and IT. Finance's worst nightmare

I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

I always knew what I wanted to dress like but that's when I became really passionate about it. We'd be in class and Google outfits or I'd doodle what I wanted.

The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to have a meaning.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.