Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

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.

When you are wise, peace shall follow.

Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

I don’t think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.

It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.

I believe in giving back very strongly.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.