If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.

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.

God’s existence is reaffirmed once we fall in with another.

It is not age but experience that brings wisdom.

... I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

The more things you own, the more they own you.

I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

John Lewis did more in one day on The Edmund Pettus Bridge than Donald Trump ever will do to make America great again.

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]

I don't believe I'm selfish in any way.

He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.