Dieting is our last tie with asceticism.

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.

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.

Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.

You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.

I asked Stu Hart earlier. I said, 'Stu, you gotta be proud of your boys.' He said, 'I have boys?'

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something - anything - far bigger than yourself.