It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

The worst pain you can imagine is when something you love goes away and nothing you can do will ever bring it back.

Think of yourself as a mobile phone and visualize the signal strength bars on your screen. Plugging In is re-establishing that connection to better your reception.

You taught me to love the dark, Aidan. If that 's wrong, then I'm already damned.

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

My schedule, it always looks like it's really steady, but believe it or not, I tend to work a bunch and then take a year off.

I can't put bars on my insides; my love is something I can't hide.

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.