Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

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.

In your most desperate moments where you crawl on the ground like worms, sometimes you suddenly hear the voice of a savior, the voice of the Music which immediately carries you away to the stars!

The sensation I had experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candlem, leaving behind wisps of nameless longing.

If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects.

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.