Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

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.

God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

Historically, when a previous US administration enters into an agreement, it carries forward into the future administration.

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.

Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.

If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.

I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor ] is a mixture.

For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.