"I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned."

“Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.”

“We need nearly every department, with the exception of police, fire and rescue, to look at what they can cut. Maybe there are some projects we need to put on hold.”

“...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.”

“I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.”

“I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.”

“One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.”

Source : François Burkhardt, Inez Franksen, Dieter Rams (1981). “Design: Dieter Rams &”

“It takes a lot of strength to hold onto and care for the things we love, so why is it that god seems to have made humans unable to conjure up that degree of power and love?”

Source : Interview with Douglas Waller, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2002.

“The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.”

Source : Jimmy Breslin (2012). “How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer”, p.40, Open Road Media