I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.

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.

Time passes…..and a billion lives are affected in ways we’ll never know.

Life has a sense of humour

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing.

Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.