The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

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.

The biblical stories are the greatest sacred-inspirations.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.

I think I have a great sense of me as a person.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

When women go to see men strip, we never accuse you of hating men.

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space.