Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

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.

Nobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with?My own imaginings?

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

I was a disruptive child.

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Sometimes people think of actors as marionettes - everybody else makes the decisions for us - and, you know, really, making this decision [of which roles to take] is the only thing you lay claim to.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

Short-term can be terminal.

Freedom is never free.

It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.