Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

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.

Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do.

Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

And then he [Mike Tyson] will have only channel vision.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.

...because where we are is always the most important place.

True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.

The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.