As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

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.

Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.

I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she'd going to drag me there herself.

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

Fashion has to be worn; otherwise it doesn't exist.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

Ava said her hand accidentally slipped and made contact with her guy's nose. I said Repeatedly? And she said, 'Uh, yeah. I'm really clumsy.

Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.

Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.

It is important to remember that for every person, there will be a problem. Even more importantly, for every problem, our God has a prescription!

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.