In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.

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.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

Since nothing is free, to each his price.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.