Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

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.

Life is but words.

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!

Ail hope abandon ye who enter here.

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

They say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.

It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

Falling and getting back up is what brings you success.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future, is in my hands, and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.