An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.

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.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself

the paradox of human ignorance is the most intriguing paradox of nature

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

Most of us float with the river and there are a few people who move the river. Robert DeNiro is definitely one of them.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in!