Sacred texts always offend reason.

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.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

You mistake us for abstaining your kind from undeserving happiness when all we do is to fight for our cause. We are soldiers, not rebels.

There is evil hidden in everyone, mine came out left me bleeding and hurts people around me.

And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.

My ideas are all the same but look different.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

How could you not be hopeful if you've got a tree around?

A persons portrayal on TV isnt always how someone is.

So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.

Hitler spoke in a quiet, soft voice.