The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

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.

Power is not pleasure, power is pain.

Every challenge makes us to humble our selves. We learn to know and depend on our Creator.

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

Perjury is often bold and open. It is truth that is shamefaced - as, indeed, in many cases is no more than decent.

Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

I dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.