The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

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.

I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them.

A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.

But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

Acting is my passion and Chelsea FC is my hobby.

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.