Never ask a bore a question.

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.

I didn’t mean to fall in love with you, but I did.- Chelsea

But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

But after years of teaching, we have decided that a lot of mothers just aren't reading textbooks.

We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.

All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.