The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

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 "Manners maketh man, " as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smileBe yourself, no matter what they

The viral marketing seeds have already been sown and you can come along with me on this journey...

Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I'll give it another shot.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

I have an excellent internal compass.

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.

I stand up for the things I believe in.