By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

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.

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?

Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.

Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

I've missed you, too, Graystripe. I watch over you, every day and every night.

The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.

To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.

Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."

The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.