Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

Don't stop when you're tired; stop when you're done.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

Times will change for the better when you change.

Every time you overcome a difficult challenge you will have a story and that story is what changes lives.

Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.

Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

You can be fat and still be sexy . It all depends on how you feel about yourself

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.