Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

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 truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.

Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

I ask myself more questions than Hamlet as I ponder which shoes to wear

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

The most stylish country in the world is Italy.

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live man or a dead woman, I'll be fine. And that, hand on heart, is unlikely to happen.