A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

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.

History was once the future, the future will create history.

Percy hefted a bronze grenade. ‘I hope you labelled these right.’ He yelled, ‘Die, Romans!’ and lobbed the grenade over the wall.

Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

There's room for magic and inspiration. There's room to live a better story.

I never really look back. I just approach life (taking) it one day at a time. I'm just really grateful.

One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.