Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.

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.

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

Only if I heal, can you heal. Only if you heal, can I heal. Otherwise, we would continue to scar each other.

I wasn’t able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we’d done the buttons up wrong.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.

I might attempt Zumba. I haven't yet, but I thought it would be a lot of fun and different.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.