Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

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.

Heaven in not out there, it is in your blissful heart.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

If a man harbors any sort of fear it percolates through all his thinking damages his personality makes him landlord to a ghost.

My mom got 11 kids. We struggled.

... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

I like that best as I am so hairy.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

The ultimate crime is not to care.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.