Everything changes as it is written down.

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.

A forest is not a wilderness, but a community of souls who speak to one another on the wind.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

The shortest horror story:The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

I chew the inside of my lip, considering for a second what it would be like to slap this skinny little witch right across her tight-lipped little face. ~Kelly about Suni

I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.'