When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.

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.

If you love everyone, you will not need to fight with enemy.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUntil it has been on his back

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball he can't hit that far.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

Ive had about 140 albums released, and Ive done everything I wanted to do.

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind.

My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.