Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

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.

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

We are all more similar than we usually realize.

David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.

Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!

To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.