This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks-light-up-the-sky kind of kiss. A girl could live to be a hundred and never forget that kiss.

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult.

I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.

You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.

Shoot, two things I said I wasn't going to do: Cry and give air quotes.

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.