Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.

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.

It's amazing that people actually get paid for what I'm doing on here for free.

...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

wherever there's laughter, there is heaven

George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.