Later is always my first choice.

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.

I dare play the game of life.

But I've bought a big bat.I'm all ready, you see.Now my troubles are goingTo have troubles with me!

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Lucifer has a sense of fun about life he just likes to play with people. But the sense of humor of the show is what makes the show entertaining as opposed to dark.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

There are two forms of populism, left-wing populism and right-wing populism. Right-wing populism requires the denigration of an "Other." Left-wing populism tends to be about the haves and have-nots.

I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.

I could easily not act again. It's not a problem.

After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.