Happiness is often hard-hearted.

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.

There are no proofs. There are only agreements

This is wisdom: to love wine beauty and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless.

Interior design is a business of trust.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.

For me the best part about the racing is to let all your aggression - whatever you've got inside you - out on the bike and just attack everything at all possible times.

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.