In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

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.

Sometimes, things need to change, because there just isn't any way for them to stay the same.

People write about "How they feel"... "Where they are now"...

May the light shines on the people siting in darkness.

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book.

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.