Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

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.

I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.

To reproduce your life is to convert it into tangible products for the benefit of humanity.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

It's so enjoyable to play a bad guy, you know.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.