If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

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.

He was everything I’d ever wanted, and everything I hadn’t even known I needed.

All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.

I like to win at everything I do.

I say, when Mercury arrives, we just pretend we’re not here.” Lawe tipped back his whiskey and swallowed in a single drink. “Stay real quiet. Don’t make eye contact.” They all nodded.

Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind.

If ever a goal ever needed a game, this is it