Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

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.

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

I don't think that the world will ever become an unpoliced place, sadly. But I do feel that there is relative freedom on the margins.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.