A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.

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.

Luck is not real, it a simple word .

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.

The brittle is easy to shatter.

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

One of the things which separates British and American culture is the reverence for the flag in American culture.

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.