Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

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's lost in thought. I'm lost in her.

Every sport pretends to be literature. . .

I have learned that trying to control other people’s opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

If you play golf, you are my friend.

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.

I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.