Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

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.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.

Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his friends for his political life.

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

I wouldn't mind meeting a dashing thief," the woman's friend whispered. Hale winked at Kat. Kat raised her eyebrows and whispered, "I'd like to meet one of those, too.

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.

I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

Thought plus belief equals manifestation.

I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.