Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

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.

Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?

In the world of business, being slow is a losing move.

Money is only the root of all evil when it gets in the wrong hand.

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power.

It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

My story is definitely going to be a happily ever after, no matter what.

I love my fans, I could not be able to do it without you and I would not be here.