Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.

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.

For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.

A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

It's pretty dangerous if you approach music trying to please other people.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.