To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.

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.

Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained.

I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.

Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.

I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.