I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

Don't underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It's worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton.

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Even in the middle of a hopeless darkness a light may suddenly reach you

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

It was definitely a rare situation where a career had started and ended simultaneously on a very high note.

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.