Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

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.

A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country.

Sleep is for squares.

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.

Lana looked at me like I’d just said I’d never watched Bring It On, or something.

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .