Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.

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.

Hope is a great believe.

God finds a way to weave even your mistakes into the fabric of a brighter future if you let Him.

Depression weakens a person at every level and bullies can smell weakness like dogs smell fear.

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

the point is that there are always answers.

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

Whenever you face obstacles, crises and dilemmas and your confidence is in your associates more than in God- it is a sign your faith is deteriorating.