Enough is ever-receding.

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.

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

Sometimes the only solution is figuring out a bigger problem to focus on.

Most people love animals, and most people love to laugh. Combining the two makes both resonate deeper.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

He gets through too late who goes too fast.

You are outrageously wonder-full and deserve to be celebrated!

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.