To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

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.

Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.

I trade all my pains for the peace of God.

Just like small acts of kindness can pave the way for a better world, small acts of corruption open the road for a corrupt world.

Keep your body grounded on earth, but keep your consciousness high above the clouds

Teach don't preach!

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

I have two iPhones, one for day and one for the night.

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.