Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

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.

Some girls, deserves to have you treat her like a princess everyday, just like you always do to me." - Maisie Preston

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.

You give to the world your greatest gift when you're being yourself.

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?

Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

I wouldn't wish my consort to suffer ennui.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.