After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

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.

Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming.

Seek God every day.

No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.

Certainly it is not a democracy.

My love is bigger than a Cadillac, I try to show you, but you drive me back.

I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.