"I'll know I'm famous when I have five Ferraris, seven houses, Cameron Diaz on my arm and a little man following me with a huge bag of money."

“I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which can be dyed day-glo colours.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

Source : A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

“Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.10

“Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.”

“I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.”

“How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It")”

“I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those 60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.”

Source : "The 21st Century Girl: Edie Campbell". Interview with J.W. Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2013.

“You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.”