The idealist regards facts as provisional.

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.

It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.

The evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere.

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.