Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost.

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.

Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

Then watch out. I warn you!" "That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.

I don't think so much anymore. When you're younger, and at your height, then people want you to do that great one again. But seriously, things are forgotten, and that's the truth.

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.