It isn’t about looks; gorgeous women get dumped every day.

In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.

When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.

If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.

Every guy knows he can find a girl who is simply satisfied with satisfying him. They are much more turned on by a woman who cares about her own pleasure as well.

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

Men control the world, but women control the men.

Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.

When you are happy, you are sexy

There is a phantom that flies with the banshees. It strangles the throat, pierces the heart and consumes the body with pain that only time and tears can expel.

Failure is a social taboo.

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world

Cartooning really is just designing.

It's no good to shoot a guy anymore. It's not enough. Nobody is throwing anybody off of buildings after seeing these movies, but they are smoking after seeing some good-looking celebrity smoke.

If your body could speak, what would it say?

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.