The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.

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.

If you try to do that which is not ‘our’ duty [the Self’s duty], it will create interference.

My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words themselves

If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?

Once again I am only who I am.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.

It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.

Life is the great teacher.

You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.