I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

You become a disciple in the biblical sense only when you are totally and completely committed to Jesus Christ and His Word.

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.

She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

Devotion to God is studying him in every aspect; serving God is teaching what you know of Him to others.