Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

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.

Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness.

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person.

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.

If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician I am glad to have laws.

Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.

I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.

Some people will never change.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.