Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

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.

Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you.

She asked Billy Pilgrim what he was supposed to be, Billy said he didn't know.

If 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' how do you explain zombies?

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.