"I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is."

"In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women."

"I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change."

"I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop."

"Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena."

"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."

"Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter."

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."