Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

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 always thought of the stars like a handful of gems that God randomly tossed across the sky, saying, 'Here, go wherever you please.

I think that Gnosticism is about discovering the way that God has turned into you, and then realizing that if you can describe how it is that God turned into you, you can reverse the process.

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

Craziness is just a varying degree of sanity.

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be

See yourself and others through the eyes of an angel and you will see a beautiful world that is light, bright, and hopeful.

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.