That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God’s principles in them

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

There was an edge of, 'Go away kid, you're bothering me'. I've kicked myself a million times since. I could've discovered Whitney Houston.

Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.

Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late.

And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.