Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

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.

Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

Secrets are never so dangerous as when they've been forgotten.

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office.

We don't have rights until we claim them.

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.