If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

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 shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends.

The sacred gift of parenthood is inscribe in the universal words ‘Papa’ and ‘Mama’.

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

I will cancel every illegal Obamacare executive order. I will cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. Out.

Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.