One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

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.

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

I don't pitch for contracts.

Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.