Jealousy is not love, but self-love.

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.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

Social Media begins with a story - your story.

It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive.