Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

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.

Trust your instincts, love with your whole heart, forgive, and never take anything for granted.

We are born into this precious human existence to achieve the uni cation of opposites and become enlightened, or liberated, from the illusion of separation.

Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man.

If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.

Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

Everyone has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.