A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.

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.

Do not focus on the broken pieces, focus on the whole picture

Adding value to your life is the only way to fulfill your calling

Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.

I want to be part of the happiness team - let's create the happiness team - from love, not greed, love of life & our planet, true & free.

He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.

I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.

Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.

Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.

It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.

I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms and equal rights for women.