The beloved is the ultimate fetish.

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.

When we relate with people, we indirectly relate with God

Time is a creation of vague mind used to describe an unknown dimension in the 3D world.

The unnatural - that too is natural.

I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

I've always loved to sing in Spanish. To me, it's just my culture. It's what I am; I'm Latina.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.