To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.

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.

People change. Life changes. It's the way of the world. Maybe it's meant to be.

I think it’s cool that you care about your heritage, but yet you don’t conform. Promise me that no matter what happens, you’ll never lose that feisty, impulsive side of you.

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

It is not other people who make them to smoke, it is mostly a voluntary decision.

I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.