Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.

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.

The world won't be loyal and burden itself to those who are having one skill and talent any longer. Make yourself useful and indispensable...

Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.

Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from America, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.