We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

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.

Avery slides on his glasses and opens his eyes again. “Dammit!” he says again with more feeling. “Why does stuff like this keep happening?”“You say that as if it’s a bad thing, ” Rob says, smirking.

Lila cringed at the ghost of Barron's words, a memory with edges still too sharp to touch.

My mom always makes the whole family pile into the car and drive around to look at the Christmas lights. My brother and I never want to do it, but my mom just loves it!

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy

If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.