"I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me."

“The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.”

Source : John Wyndham (1958). “The chrysalids”

“When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence of anybody who might release adrenaline. The best situation I know for an easy birth is when there is nobody else around than an experienced, motherly and silent midwife who does not behave like a guide or an observer.”

“...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean Daly, from a leading Anglo-Irish family.... In 1807 Dean Mohamet moved to London where he opened the country's first Indian owned curry restaurant, Dean Mohamet's Hindoostanee Coffee House :...He finally decamped to Brighton where he opened what can only be described as Britain's first oriental massage parlour and became "Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. "”

“I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.”

“My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.”

“It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.”

Source : "Kate Moss: Enduring Style". Interview with Madeline Rudin, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 21, 2014.

“The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.”

“To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.”

Source : Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr