Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.

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.

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I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.

The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.