Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

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 feeling of deep gratitude is the basis for a balanced life.

I like animals who trust people.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy, and I don't even have a worst enemy.

It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

It wouldn't interest me to try to sound like Cop or something. It would be silly and soul-crushing.

If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.

What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"

Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.