Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

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.

We will either find a way, or make one.

empathy is more powerful than sympathy

Burning her husband's bed was a mistake. Alison could see that now.

I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.

Never hurt people who love you a lot because they won't hurt you back. but they will probaly have no choice but to leave you forever

Not only am I a musician, but I'm a businessman and a family man.

I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.