Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free 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.

If your prayers are not fertile, what are they? How do you make the Buddy System feminine? Pink is feminine.

I sketched North America onto my crude and now crowded map, and Hao was astounded to learn that it was not a piece of Europe, as he had always assumed.

We can not be naive and think we can go it alone.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

When I asked him how long he had been driving a taxi, he said, Dree mouse.

I'm too small for the universe to revolve around me. It is a huge relief!