After desolation, grief brings back our humanity.

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.

He discovered in his heart the first faint whispering of pure Christianity, and in some way he continued to keep his virtue intact by keeping his vices active.

Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.

George Halas throws nickels around like man hole covers.

I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.

I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope, and she's marvelous.

No one ever talks about the good in me; they just say that I'm spoiled.

Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.