Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

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.

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.

0 liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

For the love of God, will someone please punch me in the face so I can see some stars?

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

You can't suffer over two things at once.

There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.

I'm really tired of virtue.

Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one.