Mother often said that she could never be bothered to understand why Alice did the things she did, and now, more than ever, Alice thought never being bothered was a very lazy way to love someone.

Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything.Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic.

Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.

Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.

She'd decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong and she would be weak, and both would be okay.

Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week.

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

Thank God for Redbull and fake eyelashes.

I alwyas want to try and create new looks and new things, but equally scary, hopefully. But a new kind of style.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.