"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."

"One forgives to the degree that one loves."

"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."

"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

"Every sunset is a reminder that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."

"Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel."