Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

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.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

I thought there was a chance right from the beginning.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.

Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.

The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.

Incense. Books. Just weird.

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.