The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.

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.

If politics left out the manipulation of money, I would perhaps view it more than a partisan traffic jam that never ends.

Life is but an empty dream

And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.

If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today...is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past.

Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah.

Love is the wild card of existence.

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

We make the best phone, we don't make the most phones.