A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

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.

Sometimes the best solution is the most painful option

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you...

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

Don’t be proud-you don’t have anything

If you can't fight and you can't flee flow.

A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.

We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."

This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope...

Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.