Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

May God grant your a great grace to live the fullness of life in the coming year.

Again time elapsed.

We aren’t afraid of what we can explain.

My mom got 11 kids. We struggled.

Humor is necessary - it allows the reader to come up for air before dunking them under again. I need humor and I need it on the page to keep the reader going.

Your life doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you

I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people.

Once you're in heaven it makes no difference when you got there.

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

I think that when you're 5'4" and 150 pounds and you love to chat and you have a blog about shopping, trying to maintain a tiny bit of mystery where you possibly can is not a bad thing.