Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

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.

To have been where you have beenAnd to still have joy, Dazzling in your heart, Now there’s a thing to make the whole world smile.

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.