Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

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.

Even before we met and long after we're both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I'm forever and ever in love with you.

Two steps forward...one step back...I've always hated that old cliche too...I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then.

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.

I wonder what my speech would be.