Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

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.

Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.

Success is doing everything you could the right way and saying man, I did the best I could - that's success.

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own