The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.

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.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

My vision that I’m living is to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and then lift the Lombardi Trophy several times.

I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.

There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

As far as I'm concerned, leopard is a neutral.

True art is reverent imitation of God.