Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

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.

I see the beauty of books and sacred-souls of every author displaced in a bookshop.

P57/8- one must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life hold meaning.

...and the minute I stopped giving-the love ceased.

They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.