My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.

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.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

Learn what you can, teach what you know, live how you ought.

This woman could make a saint sin.

A small town is usually divided by a railroad a main street two churches and a lot of opinions.

As a child, everyone dreams of finding treasure. There's romance and drama. But as an adult most people aren't going to spend their lives trying to find it.

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance.

Everyone in Life does Exactly what they Know How to Do Given the Conditions of their Lives