Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

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 future will be bright, if you play it right!

Justice without compassion is but tyranny

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me.

I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.