Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

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.

For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films, ' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

I will never vote for Donald Trump.

In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.

I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.

And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.

A good job isn't something you go out and find, it's something you discover while you're working.

I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.

You don't ask, you don't get.