Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.

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.

I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit.

I'm composing and writing music.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

The truth is that nothing has to happen in order for you to feel good.

Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.