My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.

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.

There is some kind of message..., in Dexter criminal series. Just try to find it and focus.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving.

The only way to protect our people, the only way to secure the peace, the only way to control our destiny is by our leadership -- so the United States of America will continue to lead

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.