When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.

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.

Paint your life with the colors of kindness so that you may find the true bliss of happiness.

Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.

As a teenager and even still now being 21, it's always love questions - it's always so confusing.

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either.

Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.