Facts do not give advice.

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.

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.

I can understand how someone might read wearing a blonde wig as a desire to be white, but I suspect that the same shaming smirk can happen if you wear a big afro or any number of other hairstyles.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

There are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.