Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

The god that you dispense with today, will come back as a demon tomorrow.

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.

Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

Why don't you tell me a story?

Sometimes losing is winning

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

What I say is what I say.

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

I hate liver, but I could imagine eating some with a little bit of ketchup. Like, a lot of ketchup. I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.