I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.

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.

My Zora senses are tingling, " I said.Nathan looked at me blankly."Right, you don't know anything about Spiderman, " I remembered."Spider who?" he asked.

Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

Even through her coat, he could feel the curve of her arm, making him aware of their differences. Man and woman. Hard and soft.

Chic rarely bothers to leave the Rue De Faubourg Saint-Honore.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.

If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.