Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings.

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.

Bullshit takes no genius, even fool senses its' foul.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

The Internet contains everything in the whole wide world ever. I don’t know about you, but I find everything in the whole wide world ever to be a bit distracting.

If you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you

How Cable survived Second Coming and what his responsibility is to his daughter, Hope, may have something to do with the Avengers.

Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.