The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

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.

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)

If you must chase make certain its with passion so you may reap a worthy reward.

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

What I'm most excited about is that there's an openness to a shift, and I do think that there's a shift happening.