Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

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.

GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.

Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.

I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.

Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.

I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.