In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

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.

What we dwell on much with our mind sinks into our heart and shapes our life.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

The more you have to talk yourself into it, the more it’s not ‘it’.

How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

The thing I don't understand about homosexuals is, how do they decide which one is the one who's supposed to pretend they don't want it?

I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

Most magicians are afraid of magic.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.