Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

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.

If He strips us of all our own resources, we just might learn to lean on Him. And to start praying again.

Hell and heaven are within us

It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived.

In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you do this, this will result," that they never go through this careful effort.

I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

I have no idea what I’m doing, and that’s kind of how I love it.

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.