My nostalgia is for the impossible.

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.

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

I mean, I feel like you can kill the same bird with both stones.

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never get past the first chapter. To me, the title better say everything there is to say about the book.

This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy!

Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.

We work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

"If you're a Republican Party that's fairing poorly, sometimes you have to win ugly.