Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.

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.

Do many guys ask you out twice?""Only the ones with balls.

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.

I want a Supreme Court that doesn't always side with corporate interests.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

Everything is God, there is nothing else but God.

If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?