My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay

My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams

The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

Art takes time—Monet grew his gardensbefore he painted them.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.