A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.

The breath of Paris pushes at my shutters.From the Balcony

Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.

One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

I like 'Elle' magazine. I love things online, like when all the big brands have a fashion show, I like to see the new collections.

I've been doing that song ["Live Wire"] on my own for years, so no, I'm not worried about [high notes] at all.