The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

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.

In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry.

Have you noticed we can breathe in here too?Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.

If you want to understand what is wrong with stupid people you must be one of them.

I get the feeling that sometimes the ideas work very well when you're doing them in the studio alone.

An insurance company might say, "Tell us more about yourself so your premiums can go down." When they say that, they're addressing the winners, not the losers.

Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.

Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.

I'm the only hell my Mama ever raised.

We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.