In these trying economic times, I believe the White House should have a minimalist touch: open floor plan, glass and steel, throw pillows, and an infinity pool.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull.

Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.

There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.

No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.

A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

Barbie is my role modle. She might not do anything, but she looks good doing it.

Our honour is that we make the law to violate and break it, and we stay to do that.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

There's something very full in knowing that your partner accepts you as is.

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.

You find the people that you need to find. There's this gravitational pull.

Ask not what's inside your head but what your head's inside of.