Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

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.

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

It's not a drug problem, until you run out of money. Until then it's just drugs.

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.

One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

Bhakti cannot be attained, it is a gift.

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.