The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

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.

Do not stand at a distance and wave hands. Get closer and hug.

Who knows if you’re alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I’m even alive anymore?

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.

We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.