My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.

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 greatest effects we have on the world are the ones we can never see.

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

Let's not imitate others.Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.

What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.

Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.

Go to the well of deep Love inside each of Us.

When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.