The pleasantest part of work is having done it.

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.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard.

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.