Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

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.

It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.

Judge a man by what he tried, not by what he accomplished.

Living as Wild Child, I could no longer be Debby Parker comfortably — this name that I’d been given at birth that defined me before I’d had the chance to define myself.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

When I'm alone, I'm in the company of the most interesting dog I know.

I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police.

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.