I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty

I like the idea of craziness with discipline.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.

Faith does not make things happen. It merely breeds perseverance

The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life.

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy.

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.