Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

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.

Liebe macht nicht blind. Der Liebende sieht nur weit mehr als da ist.

God doesn't like it when we ask Him for the smallest things, dare to make your dream so big that He can conveniently fit into it and make your dream come true.

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.

Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures.

The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.

The food you eat today is walking and talking tomorrow.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon divine, Rolls through the dark blue depths.