Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.

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 voice of the heart is much stronger than all the other sounds and words spoken without feelings

Family is what works.

When negative feelings move upon you, reflect, and recognize the danger of feeding those feelings and keeping them alive.

What Ann Druyan said: Compressed into a minute-long segment, the brain waves of a woman newly in love sound like a string of firecrackers exploding.

We went there to serve God, and also to get rich.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed

Wrestling became very stale and boring for me, and I wasn't really making any money with it. So I decided to get into fighting.

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.

I seek out songs that I believe in. You have to believe it in your heart first. Then the listener will believe it.