Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

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.

Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.

Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.

Less fear, more courage.Less doubt, more faith.Less talking, more action.Less ignorance, more knowledge.

Appetite is the beast in man, compassion is his spirit.

When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.

It's nice to play someone who functions in a very different way than I do.

As we serve our jobs we serve the world.

I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."

Being poor is only romantic in books.