Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

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.

We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billionaires are consuming politicians, others consume reporters, and some consume academics...

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul.

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience.

Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.