Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat 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.

Sooner or later everything that exists ceases to exist, and then something comes along to take its place, but not always something better.

To love is to open the window of our heart for all the beauty of the world to come in and dance with joy within our soul.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

It's important to let each artist do what makes him or her feel comfortable. Success should be a by-product of that.

You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.

Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.