In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

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 criticizes me, but my 2nd quest give me deserve a second chance but it is my own survival, My friend.

Everything he was, he gave to her.

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

Thinke of ease, but worke on.

I've said before that the Ryder Cup is not the European Tour versus the American Tour. It's Europe's best golfers against the US.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.