Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

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.

L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante.

Theirs is not to reason why theirs is but to do or die.

A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.

I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed.

I swam my brains out.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

But now, the final feeling... is one of gratitude that the journey was undertaken. Looking at the past has meant, for the first time, being able to let it go.

I just wanna see a UFO, really

I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.