The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

It's you, ” David says, “our queen with your crown, going into some body of water where we cannot follow you.

I think that you are serving others when you share pieces of yourself with other people.

Patience and perseverance are necessary in autosuggestion, as well as in everything else.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

I've been to Vulcan where I've been vulcanized, Carbon where you get carbonated and Standard where you get standardized. Ernie Isley's invited me to Castor … and I'm not looking forward to it.

When the sun dies we will become one.

I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.