I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.

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.

Good will never be enough as long as great exist. Don't look to do better than anyone else aim to do better than your old self.

Life's nycer when it's Naughtie!

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

No, that was my privilege.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

When you leave a pimp, you leave with nothing.

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

Free your mind from the colonization of thinking within the obtuse parameters of 'right' and 'left', of conservatives and liberals.

To call me a partisan hack is ludicrous. [...] I am the least partisan person I know.