Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

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 humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.

When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

Thank you Dad... for listening and caring, for giving and sharing, but, especially, for just being you! Happy Birthday to you

One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.

Don't be afraid to change the model.

'I love to cook. Very healthy eating. ...' Twain also forgoes meat, dairy, and eggs. 'Nothing,' she declares, 'that had to die.'