Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

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.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

It's three words "Alter your life" which mean change your life. It's not so easy, but it's not so hard everyone can do it.

You know what people are doing on the other side of the world, what’s happening on another planet, but not what’s going on inside the person next to you.

I am sad for the dead and I am sad for the livingbut not for my 5 cats

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.

My life is really based around my house and my friends and my family at the moment, and has been for a while now.