Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.

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.

In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry.

After all, you couldn't go through life rolling your friendships into one gigantic snowball. You wanted different kinds of friendships, with different kinds of people.

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

Oh, come on," Clary said. "You're a vampire, not Spider-Man.

The most important choices you make are the choices about how you see yourself, the Universe, and your relationship to the Universe.

In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.

As long as you are curious, you will never be bored.

While sleeping in a hammock, with the touch of a warm wind we remember why we are in love with the life!

I'm completely hooked on polo.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.