"What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?"

"'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification."

"These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney."

"Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise."

"I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history."

"Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"Wisdom principle 23 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 15."