I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.

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.

If you aren't constantly focused on your goals, you can easily waste all of the time, energy and money you invest in pursuing them.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

I like to believe magic is all around us, finding its way into everyday life one miracle at a time.

There is a difference between sin and sins. Sin is the root

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

Life is continuous, and is Infinite.

You've got to think outside the box. If you can't, that's going to put you behind the power curve in a big way.

I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street." It's a stance. It's the way I was born, or the way I was damaged.

Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.