Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.

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.

Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.

Picard only saw the movie, which had the entire Tales of the Black Starship subplot removed for time.

When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.

We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.

It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

It's amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws

The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.