I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.

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.

Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war.

It's the most unhappy people who want to stay alive, because they think they haven't done everything they want to do. They think they haven't had enough time. They feel they've been shortchanged.

If you are willing to persistently hold strong to your goals and dreams, it would only become a matter of time until impossibilities start to become possibilities in your life.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

I don't want to hear what the price of meat is.