Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.

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.

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.

We all create our own reality

Loneliness is no respecter of persons. It invades the palace as well as the hut.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it.

Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration.

And so I beat him and beat him until he kissed me. And then I kept on beating him until he did it properly.

Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting.