Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

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.

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

I have two or three shows that I follow, and even those are few and far, when I can see them on Netflix. I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.

We've got the government shutdown, but the beginning of Obamacare. You know what that means? You can now complain to your doctor about the government making you sick.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.