Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.

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.

Freedom, one of the most important words in any language.

Educate yourself. Learn everything you can and then let knowledge yield to kindness.

Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those people out - are.

The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

God let it be known that it is better to give than to receive, but a lot of people failed to get the message.

The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.

Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.