Age: I go slower as time goes faster.

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.

Look within - there is no end!

It's never too late to get down on your knees and pray.

I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.

He was dead.No trace of pain, no sufferings, no victimization.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

Wait a minute. I don't need to keep proving myself. I don't need to keep showing up at every party.

There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.

You can be a mother and still be completely sexy.

A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.

In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is necessary to bear for the sake of realizing one's own nature.