The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.

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.

She is a small woman with a face like a book mite

My ego is the wall between you and me.

If your career doesn’t work out, write a book about it.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?

Nestor beckoned to me and I dismounted with care.I handed the reins to the boy with thanks. I do not wish to see that hard-charging bag of bones again, unless it is in my soup.