Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

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.

In your life, always be like a driver who runs the car not just a car.

Three essential virtues are patient, loyalty and kindness.

Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom

why our story have no ending?

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

Second place is really the first loser.

I have never lost a total passion for my work.

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous.