Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

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.

For any created being, autonomy is lunacy. Freedom involves trust and obedience inside a relationship of love.

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.

Empirical" knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny

When you are in the presence of someone whose seed is in you, you’ve to cultivate that seed and make sure that seed depict you.

By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.