Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

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.

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

That's why you can't give up. Heroes don't give up.

God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.

I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.

Stay strong. Depression lies.