After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

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 cosmos does not require God, Laplace said to himself. But Emperors require Him. All those who seek to subjugate human beings in one form or another require Him. Science does not need God.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.

God don't like complaints.

A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.

The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.