No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

Except for in politics, no one likes to follow an idea without a firm base to walk on

Why not dare yourself to become a shinning positive light where darkness is the only thing known?

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.