The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.

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 best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

Each day a day goes by.

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.

The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.