Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

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.

Only fools prefer the past!

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.

At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.

It would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.

Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year. Like, this time, it's on December 25th.

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.

one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.