As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

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.

There is no cosmetic to gain a beauty like yours.

God prescribes the remedy for the ills of the human race. That remedy is personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ. The remedy is to be born again.

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others if not more.

one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.

The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a rhetorical question. You know what I mean? We really are as gods.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture.

Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.