Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

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.

To fall in love is easy, but forgetting is required to be crazy.

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

Just love as you breathe.

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

Brazil will change when its cities change.

I don't have to prove anything.

Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.

I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.

Fans are almost always nice. I really find that they rarely come on too strong.