Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

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.

You can never control the main outcomes of your life without controlling your mental attitude.

Intellegence is a disease

Choose your friends carefully but don’t worry about your enemies, they will choose you

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

Love is a key ingredient for creativity.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye.

If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot.