The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

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.

Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.

You will find no answers here, just choices.

It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.

Whenever something is wrong, something is too big.

I'm too excited to sleep!

You gotta judge a man by his principles.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.