The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

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.

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

One who knows the Self, knows God.

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course.

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

It's not always the things we do that make the biggest difference in our lives; it's often the things we avoid doing that have the biggest effect.

Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.