If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed?

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

Tears is the voice of heart in pain, in absence of feelings one don't care what you share.

I am a shark. A shark who dreamed he was a man.

Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute his mother to pirates.

What’s the difference?” I asked him. “Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?”“One is a choice, and one is not.

If a person uses the word 'sorry' loosely then of course it loses its value.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding.

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings are about an object being viewed through human eyes.

The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.