I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

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.

The truth is helpless when up against perception

Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals.

A man and a woman wanting each other is by far one of the least sinful things I've seen

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

I like to go to the movies or read.

There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.

When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.