Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

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 stink of rot and ruin, of old dreams, broken screams, and wicked, dirty little things.

Make a real not alibis

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's the game of baseball.

When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.

I love having an open seat next to me on the train. What's even better is when my seat is open too because I just stayed home.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

Every season, I take the opportunity to convey a much larger message than just hemlines and trends.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development.