I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.

Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.

Some people explore who they think they might be. Then some people explore who they already are and empower it.

I'd have to say the Seychelles, because I adore being in tropical places. However, Paris and Milan are also special to me. Every city has something special that attracts me.

I don't know if it is obvious, but I am extremely shy.

If it wasn't meant to be, it would have never been.

I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.

Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

Without peace, we cannot be creative.

Banshee cries?”“You know, those creatures that cry really loud when someone from an important Irish family is about to die?

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.

When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

I think it's cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new wardrobe every few months.

I don't wish that I didn't have the screaming girls.

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

I sensed that women wanted to be a little different. My fluidity gave them a way of interpreting their bodies in a more personal, individual way.

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.