Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

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.

Success won’t happen overnight

It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.

I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing!

Money should be used to help others.

The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched, pure and ever green,blissful area of our Self

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams

The course is playing the players instead of the players playing the course.

Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.