"You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important."

“The Americans ... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.”

“Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.”

“It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth”

“My theory is that the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters.”

Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

“I think that the best guarantee for the Cypriot people to feel safe is the potential of a fair and sustainable solution.”

Source : "Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

“I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of the plot. I write without thinking much, trying to overcome all kinds of self-criticism, without stopping, without giving any consideration to the style or structure of the novel, only putting down on paper everything that can be used as raw material, very crude material for later development in the story.”

“No matter what we say, entertainers are usually quite insecure, wobbly characters underneath, and maybe that bit of glory or that bit of expression or whatever it is compensates in some area.”

“Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.”

Source : "The Liars' Club: A Memoir". Book by Mary Karr, 1995.