We understand through resemblance.

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.

When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

But cycling is less a hobby than it is a discipline with the potential to transform you. It brings balance.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive.

There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others.

I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.