Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.

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.

They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.

I do not need the strength of your arm to make a knight of you, Gavin. All I need is your heart, and that you have given, ' the Prince said.

If a man will identify with God in everything, God will use a man like that as His representative

Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.

At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

I am not a police fan at all.

Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.

My mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her because she brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that.

You want to be able to say anything when you do your first draft, because some of that goofy stuff that you think has nothing to do with it is probably where the mother lode is.