Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

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.

God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

Doubt breeds doubt.

Life is too short, so love the one you got.

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

So far, as far as we know comet Wild 2 is a unique object.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

...it is only death which is hopeless.

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'