A hairdresser holds a trusted place in a woman's life

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

When I was very young I thought I was just like everyone else. I think it took me longer than most to realize I was different and even longer to realize that being different was what made me great

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.

Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.

We go to church buildings that still have a mortgage. Which means the bank owns God's house. Which means that we go and make love to God in a house that Satan owns!

I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.