Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

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.

Transform the Material.(Chuang Tzu)

It's all about attitude and feeling good about yourself and not looking like everybody on TV. You do not have to be small; you can have some junk in your trunk.

I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.

I couldn't live without something that touches my heart. No one should.

What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!

When you have the humility to listen to the Bible it does more than enlighten us, it transforms us.

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?