I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.

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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

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Keep the best, forget the rest.

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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

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Personality begins where comparison ends.

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Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

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Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.

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Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

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