Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

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.

Pain is only what you allow it to be

Dream the impossible.See the invisible.Pursue the intangible.Achieve the incredible.

Cora blamed the people who wrote it down. People always got things wrong, on purpose as much as by accident.

I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives and that’s wonderful.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

Live tonight, cuz you can't take it with ya.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.