The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

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

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.

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for.

I think every person has the ability to affect change...through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world.

I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.