In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts.

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.

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures

Lifelong learning is like a never ending personal revolution.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Satan is not going to leave. The only way to get him out is to invite God in, and God is not welcome in my mother's house.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

Time is the Mercy of Eternity