Reading civilized the inner life.

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 you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

This is the province that pioneered dreaming big.

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place.

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.