Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

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.

For the animals in nature, everywhere is their houses! When we touch anywhere in nature, we must know that we knock their doors!

This is because secrets are terrible things. Even the simplest ones

I don't want to live on past records.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.

I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.

People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing.

I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.

The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson.

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.