The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

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.

You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

Don't wear bacon cologne. If you put on...you know what? Screw it. Wear it. If you are the type of guy who is tempted to wear bacon cologne, it's not like you could get laid any less.

And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

Emotions are choices.