I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
Every woman's man, and every man's woman.
The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.
A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. Thats why your pearly whites should always be straight and shiny. I think most of my clients are drawn to a fun, flirty nature in a woman. The problem is, most women do not often feel fun and flirty.
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.