Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

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.

If you have a great vision and are ready for a passionate mission, they you are a leader.

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

But it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it.

You should always view any job as just as nerve-wracking or just as exciting as any other.

We only have one rule and that is there are no rules, so stand up and sing as much as you want to.

I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone's going to do it to me, I just let them have it.

The right to die can so easily become the duty to die.

You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.

There are several key pieces to keeping audiences engaged, and the evolution of that. One of them, mostly importantly really, is to have a brand that has purpose and value.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.