The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

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.

Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas (technical warrant officer trainee specialised in aircraft jet engines)

So . . . I am the someone you were speaking of earlier?Yes. You're my someone.You're my someone, too.

Dreaming great dreams.

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

We were Negroes and our concern was the white man and how to get along with him

Writers write to influence their readers their preachers their auditors but always at bottom to be more themselves.

I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

The universe is going to help the Warrior.

I've always admired people who are over-prepared.