Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

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.

Science asymptotically approaches reality.

A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world

Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt.

I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market?

Hate cannot be fought with hate. Evil cannot be conquered by darkness. Only love has the power to conquer them both.

A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.

And mighty poets in their misery dead.