"When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step."

“Bad people are intriguing!”

“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.”

Source : Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

“Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.”

“The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.”

Source : Interview with Samantha Bee, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.

“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”

Source : Philip K. Dick (2012). “Martian Time-Slip”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“People discover you at festivals. They come to see Coldplay or whoever, and then wander over and catch your act. Festivals make a lot of sense to me.”

“Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through the human interest of the situation photographed or by calling our attention to some commonplace but fascinating thing we have never noticed before or it can be achieved by looking at an everyday thing in a new interesting way.”

“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”