Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

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.

It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.

What we work so hard to avoid is the shattering of our lives by horrors we know we will be helpless to control.

#passioninspirecreate, this is my mantra! Passion inspires creativity!

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second.