The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots.

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 the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!

May you know, love, obey and serve the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind.

The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.

I'm a big thinker, and sometimes I think too much, and my brain can get in the way of myself.

I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.

Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.

It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

Just remember that those things that get attention flourish.

We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.