One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

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.

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

Some people might say that I think too highly of you just because I worship the water you walk on.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Life is the path you beat while you walk it.

Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

I know that my books are worthy, which is separate from me.