Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.

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.

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic, it must flow

As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can be doing different things each season is great.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief. Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring.

For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome