I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong.

I'm really not that weird. I'm a combination of a lot of different things. Maybe it's just easier to make me look weird than another model who is specifically Caucasian.

I always thought models had to fit a certain mould. I never thought I had what it takes. I'm too small and my look's pretty weird.

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion.

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

I have lots of brothers and sisters, two of whom are younger than myself, so I rely on my phone, text messaging or e-mailing to stay in the loop and communicate when I'm away for big chunks of time.

I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

But it's only when we allow ourselves to get lost that we can have the opportunity to find and be found.

The proper conceptual view is attained only through introspection.

There is one thing that 99 percent of 'failures' and 'successful' folks have in common - they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.

The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

Death is an eternal sleep.

That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.