Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

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.

Faith changes us - faith in something intrinsically good, something other than ourselves, something bigger than ourselves.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

The shushumna is a tube. It is an astral tube, like a reed. It runs from the base of the spine to between the eyebrows and a little bit above.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

I wish for myself as an adult that I cared less what people thought of me, especially people who don't know me.