Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.

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.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.

To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte c'est etre seul).

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

Hillary has now erased all of her emails, and she also had all of her pantsuits dry cleaned.

Learn not to be intimidated by important people.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.