The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

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 you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master.

When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.

You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

I LOVE Australia! Its like my second home.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.

Don't think shoot. Soon as you start thinking you miss.

When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: "Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!"