As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

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.

Remember what I done for you here today, ' he shouted and passed out.

Innovation is everyones responsibility, not just R&Ds.

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.

I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out.