How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

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.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.