The New Right: kiss the bankers and spank the babies.

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.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Remember to forget what lies behind, reach and press forward.

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.