Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

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.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ...

All wealth is the product of labor

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

You won't be happy anywhere until you're happy somewhere.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

If you have, give. If you learn, teach.

As we lay in the semi-dark hours later, we faced each other, sharing his pillow. I'd never felt more connected to anyone.

Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should.