"Pretty is as pretty does" was a stupid cliché in her estimation. Pretty is what God does in the hearts and minds of people who are a mess-whether outwardly or inwardly or both.

Fashion does not exist unless it goes down into the streets.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more at such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

Only a pure heart can recognize a beautiful and a happy soul.

There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that is getting forgotten quickly as we trumpet forward into gay marriage and gays in the military and a much different cultural attitude toward gay lives.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.