Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

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 all women revealed their age, men would have nothing to hide from each other.

He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.

The object of war is to survive it.

a sarcastic expression, on a beast, is far more sinister than rage.

When your mouth drops open, click the shutter.

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

You can escape into a character.

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space, Roll on!