If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Blonds look angelic, but can (oh, happy!) be fleshy as well.