I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.

My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

It's good to always do some sort of exercise.

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

Things were different when I was single though, and I'd go out all the time and dudes would do their thing. i don't really go out much now though.

Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing life.

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

You may look tough, but being weak-hearted still makes you weak.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.