We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

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.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!

We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.

It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.