I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.

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.

ALL that man has touched, will be used... For both Good and evil. Such is the way of the world.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

I am an unpredictable journey.

It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.