Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

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.

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

Strike up the drum and march courageously.

Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!

Whether you have sight or not, I see the future in your eyes." -Beth

Mike Tyson’s a great boxer. The greatest boxer - but boxer. Not the best fighter.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.