Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

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.

Love, as life, is a journey. Finding true love for the ever after is an amazing achievement.

Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.

I want people to take me seriously as an artist and to hear that I have something to truly say and to offer.

Then I saw you through myself and found we were identical.

It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.

The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.

In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.

A well trained person needs only a knife to survive.

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

I would far rather convey grace than explain it.