The rich are happier than we are, and should be.

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.

Nana...how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why...

Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.

I accept the hard reality that I maybe might possibly be just the slightest tiniest littlest bit kinda sorta interested in him.

I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike.

What we believe in is what works.