To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.

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.

...if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...

Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.

You save your soul by saving someone else's body.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.

As we disagree with each other, we learn more about each other, and more and more people are coming together.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.