Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

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.

Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment... What kind of prayer would we use?

Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

I am okay that has changed and I have some more wrinkles and my body is changing.

I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.