Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

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.

Do what you love, think what you feel and live the way you want.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

Me"? I know a lot of "me's," actually, so which one are you?

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist

I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.

The body has a mind of its own.

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.