Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

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.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

I just consider myself an artist. I dont really rap. I dont really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

It sounds like a cliché, but mother is really one of my closest friends, and so's my dad. He and I weren't very close when I was younger, but now we're best friends.

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction