To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.

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.

Admire the efforts of a failure like you admire the beauty of a sunset.

Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.

The main thing is to be yourself. Many times its through a mistake that you learn. And the main thing is to make sure you learn through your mistakes and get better.

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be

Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.