I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

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.

If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written?

I AM NOT UR BESTFRND BUT I'M UR GOODFRND..

When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: "This is for my benefit.

Same ideas don’t create same faces but they create same behaviors!

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you're doing in business.

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?

There is no one lonelier than God!

Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.