My partner is a Frenchman, so I have got to smell right.

Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin.

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.

I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better.

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.

There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

Beauty is not just physical. It's about what you stand for, how you live your life.

It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.

You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn how to write prose takes a lot of years of practice.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.