Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

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.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.

The act of underlining always contains an element of self-recognition.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

Spiral minds are harder to twist.

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

love is dangerous for your tiny heart even in your dreams so please dream softly

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.