We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.

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.

There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that -- using logic as a weapon.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

I say what other people won't.

Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.

I did nothing but work. I made work my hobby. I was lucky that way.

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.