I like to say that my mother had a very ordinary life. From the outside it didn't look like there was anything particularly special or wonderful about it, but when you watch somebody hold on to that life with both hands, it makes you think that life must be pretty damn good.

Not writing at all leads to nothing.

My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me.

high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.