Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.

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 cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience

Pain is temporary- The pain you feel today is only to get strength to face tomorrow.

People make mistakes. They look at the surface of things and see what they want to.

We are confusing making “progress” with eradicating the larger problem.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching.

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.