Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.

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.

It's not enough to 'like' and retweet. Best we express our love to all that we meet.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

Your manuscript is both good and original but the parts that are good are not original and the parts that are original are not good.

I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland

I hate to say that not everything is politics, but not everything is politics.

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.

Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.