The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.

There is something very attractive about blonds, especially for brunettes. Its been said that blonds are loved and brunettes do the loving.

With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style.

I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think I haven't changed at all.

My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together.

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.

The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education.

Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.

I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.

I'm scared that if I collaborated on something with somebody, I would be in some way losing my own contact with what I was going and tempting fate.

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.

My family was too precious to forget, and too rare to replace.

The opportunity to see the future was placed in us by God through dreams and visions.

The true definition of innocence is unfiltered perception.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

My mother had lots and lots of children who didnt survive.

If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.

I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.

Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law...Sow generously and you will reap generously.

I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.

On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.