I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.

Collecting is my passion.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity...

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. .

You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.

The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.

I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life.

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.