A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Gratitude gives infinite fullness of life.

A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

There is always a reason to be grateful.

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Pitching in the Olympic Games, Pan Am Games and Central American games prepared me to pitch at the big-league level.

What gives me strength is thinking about my children.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.