I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

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.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

It's never fun to read death threats.

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.