I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

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.

History is nothing if not far-fetched.

Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it, ' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline

Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

desire is a beast that must be fed!

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?