I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.