To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

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.

A simple way to access compassion is to see with the eye of your heart.

We can all make the world a better place through the moment-to-moment decisions we make as we interact with people.

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind

I want Japan to think and say that we are better off for JPMorgan having been here through thick and thin.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

A life without glitter is no life at all.