My boyfriend thinks it's crazy that I wear a different bikini every day on holiday.

We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

I understood from an early age what being competitive means.

I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

I don't stay anywhere. I visit. I observe. I leave. I don't ever stay.

I, for one, am ready for a lot more adventure and a lot less nothing.

Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

Let the boundlessness be your boundary!

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.

O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

Letters of friendship require no study.

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

Mother is a verb, not a noun.