I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something.

I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

Music is reflection of self.

here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

To be human is erroneous.

Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we [in US] start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to energy, we're never going to get there.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.