Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.

I have trodden the winepress alone.

I still watch 'Idol, ' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing.

I paint all the time. Each night I wrestle, I paint my face because I am an artist. It's kind of all coming together where I am able to do everything I really love to do and need in my life.

Blame it on Peer Pressure.

People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.