I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.

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.

Great soul, great life.

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

Because the Republican Party are filled with cowards they're afraid to reach out to the Hispanic community, they're afraid to reach out to the black community.

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

At one point in time, you've just got to be a brave soldier, and speak up. What are you scared of, you know? So many of our entertainers have that fear because we're afraid of opposition.

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.