Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

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.

People will reveal themselves to you. In single moments they show you what they are.

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

Do you think heaven's like that?Could be worse, said Serge. You know all those pushy people who keep telling us we're not going to heaven? It could be full of them instead.

There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.

What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

Honest songs aren't written for money.

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

I work on my game daily. Because I'm never satisfied, never going to be.