Sexual attraction pairs people, but does not match them.

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.

I don’t want people to fall in love with my smile, my face or my body. I am waiting for somebody to love the mess I can be and fall in love with my emotional scars.

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

I think [Newt] Gingrich who's been the - among the truth tellers to [Donald] Trump, I think, in public, take a listen.

[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside

Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.