All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.

Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.

She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.

Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave, ” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.

It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.

That’s what so many people get wrong about fashion now. It shouldn’t be about the trends or the size zeros or who’s using fur and who isn’t

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.

Don't start. My mood stays better if you don't start.

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

Everyone has something unique about them.