In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.

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.

It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.

Give me the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, and I will predict the future.

Your life and everything about your world should be represented on your social media accounts, and everybody feels that way from family to friends to boyfriends and girlfriends.

You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.

I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.

There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.