F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.

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.

Genius is the gold in the mine talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

The only thing you have to have is patience and an attitude that you aren't ever going to give up.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.

Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

People are pissed off about the seemingly impossible goal of social mobility. their proposed solution is to take the wheels off the cart.

I know that if things hadn't gone the way they did then I wouldn't be where I am now.

Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.