The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

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.

We're close. I can smell their faint scent, " Blake whispered.Kieran snorted. "That makes one of us. All I smell is dog shit.

The emotion was the most important thing.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four.

‎Old enough to kill means old enough to die

The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.