Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.

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.

How can I forget there's just one life & so much to do. Let me choose the best things to do & start to do.

Becoming an effective letter writer means analyzing each situation individually and choosing the form of correspondence accordingly.

Remember to be kind. Always.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

[Congress] can just make [Mitt] Romney president. And we'd be like, "All right, fine."

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

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