If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

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.

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory...

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

I am free to write: therefore, I am free to be.

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

That Bible is read best, which is practised most.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

Have never been a minor league fan.