the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

Leaders don’t step on toes of dwarfs. They mount shoulders of giants.

... only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ...

We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuitess.

They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably. "Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs," he added to Uncle Vernon. "And batteries. Got a large collection of batteries.

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.