Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

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.

Some day the road that you choose will be your destiny The hope and the anxiety you grasped tightly Will surely move you and me, because it will become a light

Man created words to free himself

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.

All our geese are swans.

I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don't fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly.

If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.