Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

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.

My Christmas wish: To feel your arms around me, to have your lips on mine, and to hold you close one more time, while there's time.

Love comes unseen we only see it go.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

I’m going. But before I do, let me congratulate all of you on your stupidity. (Fury)

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.