You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.

Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you might not have a story to tell. But I think most people do.

Learning how to learn is a lifelong process.

Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you.

She needed him to keep her sane, to make her laugh, to feel complete

It's hard to keep the energy going sometimes, that's why I like to go with a group of people who are meditating. I love meditating in groups, it's fantastic.

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in 'Annie Laurie', but I can't recall that it helped much.

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.