A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

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.

People who tell you exactly what they think of you aren't necessarily enemies.

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

Leave something good in every day.

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

The sum total of karma is God.

I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.

No amount of human willfulness can overcome God's determined love.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real destiny of Russia is to become closer to the West.