Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.

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.

The damage and destruction from the soft brush of pen on paper, a minuscule twitch of muscles at the end of manicured fingers, and people's lives forever altered.

It'll make you look rugged, ' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning, ' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.

It cannot be considered success unless you are smiling.