Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.