Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

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 age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness.

'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.

There's evidence that one of the Paris attackers may have entered Europe posing as a refugee.

A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men

We're all God's children. We are all special people, and the Pope is no different.

Peter [Norman] never vacated from himself as to who he was.

It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.

Death smells like birthday cake.

I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.

You know I was just taking a dump one day, and then as I sat there I realized, I really do deserve better.