"Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets...."

“I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.”

“Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher.”

“faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE DETECTIVE EBENEZER GRYCE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 11 Mystery Novels in One Volume: New York Murder-Mysteries: The Leavenworth Case, A Strange Disappearance, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, Hand and Ring, That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, One of My Sons…”, p.2348, e-artnow

“In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.”

“The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which is a very painful way to learn - by writing and then discovering that I don't know what the f**k I'm talking about. But you remember the lessons vividly.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.”

“In social situations I still feel scared. My best friend and husband give me the freedom to be myself.”

Source : "Retail therapists" by Fiona Neill, The Times, July 14, 2007.

“Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.”