Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles.

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.

My choices were never wrong.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

The West to me is where the landscape is.

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

Insight must precede application.

As we work together and pool our resources, there's room for everyone to be successful.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.