Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

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.

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

You can either control yourself by simple two lines of bitter truth, OR by confusing yourself in long stories to comfort with a lie

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.

My dad and me were incredibly close. He was an actor, and so him and I shared this whole movie-world thing closer than anyone else in the family.

Whatever your orientation is, it is working on everything around you.

In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.