"I think the past is something I have spent a lot of time thinking about, not only what is different about the past but what's the same, and what links us to the past."

“No really great man ever thought himself so.”

“Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!”

“And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed. Just the way, even at that time fully two years after my mother's death, I'd catch myself thinking about her as alive; and would suddenly remember, an admonitory finger of grief upon my breast, that she was gone.”

“I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.”

Source : "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

“I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.”

“You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.”

“I personally love sportswear, and love using it in high fashion.”

“Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.”

Source : Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38, 1985.