Pity drowns in numbers.

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.

Some people would rather be right than free.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.

The sacred words are sword of life.

They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

I'm kind of old-fashioned because I was born and live in the same house for six generations.

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.