Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.

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.

Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you.I remember how to fly.

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

Hurry is the weakness of fools.

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in the darkness starts disappearing.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again.