In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

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.

with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26").

...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

There's any number of DJs who have inspired me over the years. I don't actively go out in clubs, so I can't tell you if there's some hot new talent out there who everybody's aware of but I'm not.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.