Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''

Smoking ages you quicker than almost anything else.

Show me a woman content with her figure and I'll show you a seven-year-old girl. Everybody else is engaged in the war against flab.

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didnt want to be a singer. I didnt want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

The secret Ive lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And thats always my closet.

John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.

I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.

I'd trade a hundred pretty faces for one person who's easy to talk to.

We’re all somebody’s prospect

Stories don't end, " he says. "They just turn into new beginnings." (pg. 123)

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco.

It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.