There's nothing like a good pair of heels.

My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

I have become that mother I used to dread.

Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

When we have developed a trust in both our inner man and woman and they can nourish, support, communicate and cooperate with each other, a love begins to flow between them.

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.

It's hard to field the ball when you have both hands around your throat.

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

It's scary how easy promises were broken.

It's just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use.

Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you get more friends than you know what to do with.