Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

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.

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

I think I came alive when I started photography.

You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.

Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done.