General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

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.

All war will end when women cease to find men in uniforms attractive - discuss.

Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week, In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.

I think the only thing that I really haven't done much in, and I haven't felt too attracted to, is romantic comedies.

He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration.

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

My dream jobs would be Italian 'Vogue' and anything with Chanel!

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.