Life is a long lesson in humility.

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

What comes out of the mouth is the state of the mind.

what you don't know will cost you.

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

I think being in the public eye can only help me launch into the world of fashion.

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.

You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.