If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

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.

There's so much that we're doing wrong today. And studies show we're one of three countries that doesn't invest more in disadvantaged communities.

God doesn't make mistakes and timing unfolds as it should.

And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante flashing her bra thanks to a wardrobe malfunction.

Women's fashion is more interesting than men's.

I do not feel that we should set up PEOPLE as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.