At the end of every diet the path curves back toward the trough.

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.

I know what I want.

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

You're the mirror, I am your image...

We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

The cure for grief is motion.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

Hey, I'm a human being also.

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.