Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness.

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.

...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Child molesters must all think they've got huge dicks.

On stage is the only place where I really know what I'm doing.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.