We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

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.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

No policy is worth anything outside of reality.

Rock concerts are the churches of today.

I like being an employee. I like making somebody happy - and if they're not, then I'm crushed.

I think the Republican Party is cursed. And it's cursed itself.

All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.