Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

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.

To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while.

Think for youself but not because I said so!

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

A miracle is an invitation into a new story.

I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

Truth is in your sahasrara. And when the truth comes in, you are surprised that truth is love and love is truth, pure love.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.