The chair as ideas fits only the bottom as idea.

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.

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:

Those who are brave, are the greatest cowards of all. For they fear failure.

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing.

In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.

What we do today is more important than what we plan to do in the future.

I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.

You think that God positioned you here so you can just have it all to yourself? God blesses you to become a blessing. That's the deal.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.