Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

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.

In a Universe with infinite possibilities we don't have to have our hearts set on just one.

What is it doing to me? Will the darkness consume me?

Sometimes even braves are incapable of handling situations.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

You know you're lazy when you run out of toilet paper and use the cardboard roll to wipe with.

In work, do what you enjoy.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.