I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

There are no ugly ducklings.

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

A charming woman is a busy woman.

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

I'm not a jazz singer.

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.

A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.

A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black."

If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.

I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.