Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

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.

Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

I think only a massive public outcry would result in my receiving any measure of justice.

If it's truly a passion and it's truly something you believe in, then you need to do it.

Now, with the Internet, you're either five years ahead or you're five years behind, and the music game is catchin' up right now.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.