Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

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.

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.

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Christmas is the spirit of love, peace and goodwill to all Humankind.

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

Maybe Bernie [Sanders] lost his perspective because he became a part of the Washington culture. Maybe it's a generational thing.

I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.

Right believing produces right living

Good people don’t go to Heaven, forgiven people do.

What is she to me? Except a menace — a danger you’ve chosen to inflict on all of us.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.