I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.

I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

I believe you have to make things happen.

I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

You have to encourage people not to give in to the temptation to be normal, even if it isn't easy - because when you're young, you really want to belong.

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.

I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.

I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.

I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!

Some people only dream of success… while others wake up and use Cosmic Ordering.

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.