I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.

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.

To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails.

When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you.

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.

Ideas are only as good as their execution