The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

You cannot forget about your femininity. You don't have to compete with men in that respect.

There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]

I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.

There is no place for selfishness-and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice

No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

You gotta call a blacksmith.