My beauty routine is basically plenty of sleep and lots of water.

I drink at least five bottles of water a day and always get eight hours of sleep.

My stylist coached me on how to stand for photos. Always put one leg forward and a hand on your hip.

To look long and lean, wear a wide-leg trouser with high heels.

Sometimes that's what prayer is--simply inviting God to join us where we actually are, not because He isn't already here but because inviting Him reminds us it's true.

Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

Progress does not occur without change.

The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don't fear any man. I never have.

For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.