Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.

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.

She had reason to doubt him

I'm not really looking forward to wearing a black rubber suit in the summertime in humid Chicago. If you see a pool of sweat through the city, follow it and you will find me.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other.

The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.