Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

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.

We all encounter things that may seem dim and puzzling at first, but when we actively explore them, we find bold, undauntable light igniting the way from the inside. From within.

If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.

Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.

Work with what you have. Look good, feel good.

We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.

The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.

I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.

Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered.”