The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

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.

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?

There is only one possible road you can take, ' he said, 'and that is t go by way of your imagination.

Be bold enough to let your destiny determine how far you get to travel in life instead of your fears and doubts.

Surround yourself with everything and everyone that will help you feel your best, think your best, do your best, and be your best.

I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.

Heav'n is not always got by running.

Where beauty ends is where the artist begins

I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.

In every moment of every day of my life, I get to wake up and work with amazing people and nurture them in the way that I might have nurtured my son or my grandchildren that he might have had.

If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.