Hatred observes with more care than love does.

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.

Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you.

Damn this human who had come into her life and made himself so important to her

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.

We're going to renegotiate trade deals.

There's something very cool as an actor when you have an opportunity to play somebody who's real, whether they're still alive or not, but who has lived a life.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.