When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.

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.

it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some dim billiard room of his unconscious, that when he built “The Breakers” he damned himself.

We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.