I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together