I actually believe in denial.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

You don't marry a woman because you love her, you do because you're MAD for her.

Forms of love are so many. Just make sure your heart can fit in it.

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them.

Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.

A lot of people go, "I'm influenced by the Beatles and Zeppelin," and they just sound like a karaoke.

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.