I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

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.

God is exist within us.

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

I was considering running for political office.

The Democrats are the people who willingly allow their testicles in a lockbox somewhere.