My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.

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.

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten

You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.

The South may not always be right, but by God it's never wrong!

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.

A maid that laughs is half taken.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.

Keep on dreaming boy cause when you stop dreaming it's time to die.