Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

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.

My life wasn’t just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently.

Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.

I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.

Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.

There is no such thing as an accident. It is all part of a master plan. Play your role as gracefully as you can and relax.

The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.