Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

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.

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.

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

In order to gain mastery over whatever you have been called to do, you must look for ways of improving how you do them.

Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't have it all - they just don't have the juice to figure it out.

‌If you done something for the sake of God, be worry only for God’s satisfaction, if you done it for people’s satisfaction, be certain you will be regretted.

To want to forget something is to think of it.

We'll always have Paris.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.

I think people forgot that there are still ways you can get the ball inside rather than just standing there and throwing the ball in. You have to have a system that makes all things work.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.