My passion for fashion borders on insanity.

My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort

If you don't wear lipstick I can't talk to you.

If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you. You need to have lips - they are important for getting men.

If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.

I hate crap, I like craftsmanship

I'm not proud to admit I once owned a fringed cowgirl jacket.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

It wasn't a healthy attitude, but it wasn't really a healthy world.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.

We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.