Lovers should also have their days off.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Novels are longer than life.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

With renunciation life begins.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.