Music dissolves the straight and narrow.

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.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

Respond to your customer's dissatisfactions with precision and power.

The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.

This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!