Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

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.

Whether we like it or not, we need each other.

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

I liken actors and movies and TV shows to football teams. We all have our favorite ones.

When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.