Time wounds all heals.

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

I don't think I'd give advice. That never pays off. That's always a bad idea. If they follow your advice and it doesn't work out, or if they don't follow your advice, somehow you're on the hook for it.

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.