Joan Juliet Buck Quotes

With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style.

The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.

To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling.

There is something very attractive about blonds, especially for brunettes. Its been said that blonds are loved and brunettes do the loving.

I always find myself loathing what I've just been before - the person who was living in the apartment that I just left, the person I was a year before. I constantly have the feeling of shedding skins and changing.

My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together.

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.

I only envy as basic old sexual jealousy.

Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.

I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think I haven't changed at all.