When you're in a romantic relationship, of course, there is a lot more compromise and you have to be a lot more unselfish.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special.

I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers.

Learn well and play well.

It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

The strong desire for success is the best indication that you can achieve success.

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.