Art can make chaos seductive.

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.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.

My administration will be the most transparent in history

It's a difficult time for a lot of people right now.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump.

We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise.

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.

We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.