My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

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.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Whether or not someone sexualizes you for wearing an outfit, that's their problem and not yours.

Masochism is a valuable job skill.

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

I had a Velcro wallet in a casino. That sound annoyed the hell out of me. Whenever I lost money, and I opened the wallet, it was like the sound of my addiction.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.

It's a clear day Sonny, L A N D.