If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty

I like the idea of craziness with discipline.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

Suppress anger and the world will be good for you, suppress more anger and the world will be better with you. Suppress all your anger and then you will not be okay with this world.

A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

You can stay young as long as you learn.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

I love learning languages, and actually computer code is another language as well.