Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

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 meaning of life is that it ends

If the teaching of Christ were a law, it would not be a gospel {glad tiding}, but a sad tiding.

There are friends and faces that may be forgotten, but there are horses that never will be.

You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.

In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels.

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

Without the smile from partial beauty won, O what were man? - a world without a sun.

I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.