The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.

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.

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.

We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.