Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.

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 we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.

Love your soul mate with all your heart and body.

He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling.

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.

Sun! Love it but know I should not be in it so much.

When you're with another tea smoker it makes you feel a special kinship.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

What you practice on the mat is what you end up doing in your life.

I don't feel that America has a black dude right now. I'm that dude.