The sun cares nothing for illumination.

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.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

God has a plan to make you great, famous, and unique

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.

A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

All marriages are sacred, but not all are safe.

There is no armor like perseverance.