Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

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 tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.

As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

God warned me. He told me to build a boat.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.