When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.

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 enslave me with fake money, and I realize enslavement is fake. Its in your best interest to set me free!

The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.

Paul Ryan is a nationally tested leader that is widely known and respected.

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

I'm one of those people that really pays attention to the music in films.

Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion.

What a lot of things I don't need.

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.