A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.

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.

The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself.

We went our several ways, " said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

I don't have to be the hero or nothing. I just have to be part of the team.

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.