Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

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.

The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.

...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...

I have seen worse things than ghosts, and if one were to appear to me, I should have so many questions to ask of it that it would have no time to groan and moan and shake its chains.

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

There's nothing like a good pair of heels.

Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth

The causal body is like DNA or RNA in that it is the coding that determines your level of evolution.

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they're still in love and still write together.