I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.

I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

I just can't eat without my sunglasses.

No, I am who I am. Im not going to change for anybody.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

My flaws and imperfections make me perfectly incomplete.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

... a war always ends.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not like the Zapatistas were reading European social theory.

Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.