... blueprints are like pets and children -- difficult to appreciate or understand unless they're yours.

We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous expensive journey to consult the oracle at Delphi. Today, if you want guidance, all you have to do is unplug your ears.

Show dogs and their handlers remind me of Brooke Shields and her mother: an incredibly disheveled person tethered to an impeccably groomed animal.

I think bad taste should be a felony.

I asked my vet what kind of dog he'd get. He told me, 'I'd get a Chihuahua, because when it died, I wouldn't care.

My husband says that I'm afraid of heights, but that's not true. What I'm afraid of is falling.

Los Angeles: A city I like because it's easy to tell who the strange people are.