All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

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.

Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us.

In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.

When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.