The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

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.

Brotherhood is born in adversity.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.