To avoid eye contact, kiss.

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.

A life lived mired in resentment is one that is lived primarily in the past and this is never one that is filled with joy.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.

You’re every single fantasy I've ever had.

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.

If honesty was like water that people couldn't live without it, the world which became heavier due to the endless lies would be just light like a feather!

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.