Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Read not to contradict and confute

Men ought to read the Bible and hear God speak.

There may be no English word as bent and broken by casual misuse, or drained of blood by idealizing admirers and apologists, or grossly caricatured by huckstering detractors, as church.

My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's.

You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.

Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!

It was the day my grandmother exploded.