Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.

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.

Every villian is a hero in his own mind.

There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes.

Every passion has its destiny.

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.

I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

I'm old school. I was taught that ice was for bourbon, not for your arm.

You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.