The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right.

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.

It's not the amount of Bible you read, it's the amount of Bible you believe.

It's beautiful when you realise how kind, tender, warm and big-hearted a person is that has suffered too much for their own good.

Said Opie Read to E.P. Roe, "How do you like Gaboriau?""I like him very much indeed!"Said E.P. Roe to Opie Read.

My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

I love making pizza with cauliflower dough. Again, can't taste the difference once you add enough ingredients.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.