Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.

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.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

I think the glue that held Fringe together was the relationships.

It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.

Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.

I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics.

Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.