All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

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 don't speak just so I can be heard

The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy.

Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.

I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

Human nature fascinates me.

God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

Failure doesn't come from falling down, failure comes from not getting up