"Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved."

“He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1844). “Philip van Artvelde; a dramatic romance ... Second edition”, p.21

“I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

“But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?”

Source : Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

“I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.”

“I think that's a luxury - to have a nomadic life and to be a kind of bohemian. You feel totally free and you can adapt yourself very easily. But at the same time you can totally lose balance, because you don't know where you belong anymore.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.”

“I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture and I wanted to save it.”

“I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.”

Source : "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.