Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

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.

We are living the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a piece of the story, but in the context of the album, more of the colors are revealed.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

I look upon pride as a sin.