Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

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.

It is time to stop standing at the edges of rooms. Hugging the walls. Living in my head. Wishing I had something to say.

When you are socially aware, you will realize whether you are forcing yourself into a conversation or have actually been invited to participate.

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision.

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh programmers: it goes in yellow and comes out yellow. It's WYSIWYP.

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.