The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.

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.

Doubt is a delusion.

You aren’t in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?

She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

I'm obsessed with getting married, but I don't even have a boyfriend.

There's always some way to find hope. Remember that.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.