The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

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 essence of existence is experience.

You are worth more than what people say or think of you.

The same sun that melts the butter hardens the clay.

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.

The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas.

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.

I am not a failure if I don't succeed; I am successful because I tried.