I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

You can’t conquer everything in a day. Or even a week. Maybe not even a year. There’s no way to work hard at grieving. You just have to let it happen. And you are, so don’t fight it.

when true purpose calls, double mindedness, confusion and frustration come along.

I could survive for months, years, on a crush.

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

I'm happy with embellishment in a chunky Prada-esque way, but I'm not into sequins!

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

I don't just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other ones are crap.

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

True success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths