Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.

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.

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

i trust our connection, regardless of what logic has to say.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard

We owe the world an encounter with God

Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

The wise man never loses his temper.

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.