Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships 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.

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

... without health to enjoy love, and love to enjoy wealth, is not all vanity?

Thinking evil is making evil.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

"Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.