Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.

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've never been cool - and I don't care.

I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?'

A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

I've learned that you can't make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they'll panic and give in.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

Songs from the wood make you feel much better.

Everything that is exquisite hides itself.