Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

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.

When the storm runs out of breath, a rainbow is born.

No amount of wealth or power can ever make you a rich as a free man.

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

There is no power in your name or my name, but there is awesome power in the name of Jesus because of everything he represents.

Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.

I write because I love doing it.

After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another time and darted home.