Indifference creates an artificial peace.

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 secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

We are all monsters.

We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel

Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.

I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.

I came in ["MADtv"] kind of late in the season. Some of the producers didn't want me but the network did. It was all (messed up) from the beginning.

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?