The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

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.

My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!

The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)

Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis.

I'd rather be the last runner who saw a cool thing that everyone else missed, than to be a speedy runner who had a miserable experience.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

Coach (Pat) Riley told us on June 8 we'd win the title on June 20.