I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.

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.

A man who cant discuss ideas, especially those that are not a reflection of him, is not open to himself

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

I want to always do things that are very current and pushing the boundaries of the way we create art.

Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.

Qatar is giving 2.8% of our GDP to research. This is something again that is a breakthrough, as nobody was even thinking of research as a tool or component for advancement in this part of the world.

I'm not one to be messed with. I can be bad when it needs to happen.

You have haters from all walks of life. I could care less who wants me to fail. They inspire me.