Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.

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.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

Faith can keep you alive in any storm.

There's plenty of food, other than non-vegetarian, here, on this earth. So, don't hurt, kill and eat animals to increase your girth

I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.

Understand your fears and then work to conquer them.

I feel like weed is still taboo enough to be cool but not taboo enough that you have to totally hide it, which is like a pretty good place for an entity to be at.

I dont have ulcers, I give them

Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.

If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.

If I can hear it I can kind of play it. I guess that's how I write, just how something feels.