I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.

It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place.

If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.

The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a sense of the revelatory detail. I look for them.

It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.

I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether another world is indeed possible.

The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

I am proud to be a normal size girl and I want to encourage everyone to be confident at any size.

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.