Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

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.

May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.

Never compete with any man but yourself. Seek to develop yourself.

Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.

Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

We should exterminate all rational thought.