Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

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.

Devon Hamilton-Zemaitis was a beautiful woman. Being dead didn't change that.

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

The Jews spend at Easter.

Honestly, my number-one motivation is my family.

Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said.

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

Any time that you think you've hit the top of the mountain, the truth of the matter is you've just reached another mountain. And it's there to climb all over again.

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.