Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

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.

In the morning envision victory, at night dream of it, but during the day fight for it.

sometimes every word i write is 'love' but the letters are rearranged, the sounds are different. all the words are red.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, " he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

if you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts.

It’s not getting to the wall that counts; it’s what you do after you hit it.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Investing in a market where people believe in efficiency is like playing bridge with someone who has been told it doesn't do any good to look at the cards.