Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

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.

To discover the original plan of God is to manifest the work of creation

My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all.

The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.

Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

The crowning characteristic of love is always loyalty

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.