If the current is right, one can drift to success.

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.

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

the ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

All things are possible to one who believes.

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

I'm known for my handwritten notes.

Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.