Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

President Yar'Adua can rule from anywhere in the World

We were really sick of silver.

The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.

Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.

I feel like I learn something from everything I do.

The new European Soviet.

I'm not worried about what's in fashion, what's not in fashion, what are the colors of the season. I go with my gut instinct because every time I haven't it's been a mistake.