All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

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.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper.

You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.

The King is dead! Long live the King!

As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight.

Information Overload = "information pollution"

Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.