Wisdom is dead. Long live information.

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 feel something should be changed, start the change with your thoughts and mind-set. Cause you may not change the surroundings but your thoughts will...-Giridhar Alwar

kisses... areand always will be the only language that I will have ever truly known.

In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead.

When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?

Faith never knows where it is being led, or it would not be faith. True faith is content to travel under sealed orders.

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.