Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

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.

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post.

It's engrained in us by society not to love ourselves.

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.

I write, "Give me reason but don't give me choice, because I'll make the same mistake again." I think that's what most men want to be told.

[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.

I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me.

The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations.

In August most of Europe goes on holiday.