It's more important to be healthy and of good spirit than it is to be thin, just as it's more important to be an attractive woman than a fashionable one.

Silence, nothing is better.

There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable.

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.