But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

Romy had never done a budget, Marisol had never designed costumes and sets, and Suzanne had never acted, but when I asked them to help, they didn't hesitate

This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap...

Really? We are being herded on a bus to drive across town to an all-boy academy where we disembark and join our lonely counterparts on a dance floor. Sounds like a scorecard situation to me.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart.

Nobody ever died of being shot by a cookie.

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

Oh, you know, driving around, coming to a stop sign and an entire family, from 8 to 80, will be looking at me with that Dr. Evil look - pinkie on the mouth.

The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.

Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game

I've been to Paris. And it ain't that pretty at all.