An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

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.

Only tyranny fears the full expression of liberty.

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.

Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

I never really was a grime artist. I'm just an artist.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.