Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

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.

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.

A form of self-delusion.

This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure out what does this thing want to be? You got to let it lead you a little.

Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.

I'm bangin' from Belize to Tel Aviv on the Red Sea Racin' Saddam Hussein on Kawasaki jet ski's

Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong.