The passion for money is never fickle.

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.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies -- both at home and around the world -- to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.

I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

I got a lot of positive people around me.

I think you get to a certain point in your life and where you grew up stops reminding you of when you grew up. Everything changes, everything metamorphosizes.

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.

Change art to include yourself.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

What you are looking to create is a positive, happy life: the more you intend that your thoughts are positive and happy, the more that is what you will create.