I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent.

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.

Never ever care what people think about YOU, but be aware of what kind of ENERGY you create in them through your acts!

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.

God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you.

If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.

I dont know of one group of people thats more disliked than politicians -- it may be the folks who gave us the Wall Street bailout. And thats where Mitt Romney comes from.

I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.