Don't underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It's worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton.

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

Patience is like ice cold water runing truth your veins, but our love will be immense

Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind

I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that.

Use your art to fight.

I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me.

Terrorism is global and can come from even remote countries.

Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.

It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.