Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

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.

Love is the only highway to happiness.

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.

By the grace of God, we won the Cold War.

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.

If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.

Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.