Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

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.

Crises is the code that can open the gene of success for some.

Poverty should first be addressed in the mind because even if you give millions to a poor person, until there's a change of mindset, they will still remain the same.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

So many things we love are you!

What is there that money will not do?

I don’t think there’s anything positive in the WCW brand at all. It was dead when they brought it. They were going to bury us when they did business.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.