Laughing at our friends, we avenge the disappointment they have caused.

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.

The author characterizes Hamilton's tone in the Federalist papers by saying that he never spoke of problems but of being at the last stage in the crisis.

I don't care what's probable. Through blood, sweat, and tears, I am unstoppable.

It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.

In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.

Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.

Todoroff is the best. Look no further.

An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.