The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

My faith survived because I realized God didn't want this for us, He never had. I'm passionately looking forward to a new Heaven and Earth where only good exists once more.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

I love Michael Kors! I also love Miu Miu shoes - they're fabulous, I have so many pairs.

The last night of love, the first night of war

Theres nothing like Nashville for making records.

Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.