I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.

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 have an attraction to strangeand unusual things.I find them interesting, spellbinding, utterly fascinating.

This incompleteness is all we have.

If I'm going to represent God I have to do it the best I can.

I think it's important to understand that ISIS's biggest enemy are ordinary Muslims. That's why they're fleeing.

I came through and I shall return.

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

I've gotten balanced coverage and broad coverage - all we could have asked. ... For heaven sakes, we kid about the liberal media, but every republican on earth does that.

Diets are essentially traning courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure