We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

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.

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.

You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.

In a way "Drive" is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.

The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone