The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

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.

All your solutions are in people, and you can only be free when you love them

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

I tweet because it allows me to say anything I want and sometimes people respond.

...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

I feel like Hip Hop culture has always been about [fashion]...it started in the street so it has always been a thing of the streets to be first.