The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?

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.

Unborn eternity does not die

Better the devils you know than the one you don't.

I couldn't keep doing this to myself. One day, I was going to wake up and realize that, in my desperate escape from the pain in the present, I'd let the future pass me by.

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

If you make your business about helping others, you'll always have plenty of work.

Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.

I write novels and other things.

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

Good customer service begins at the top. If your senior people don't get it, even the strongest links further down the line can become compromised.

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.