"To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not."

“Is there anything more attractive than a woman in high heels and low self esteem?”

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

“Go for vitality, not comfort.”

Source : Nicholas Lore (2012). “The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

“Now, almost twenty years since my last job in book publishing, I know that there are far more socially inept people in book than in magazine publishing. At the time, however, I just didn't feel I was enough: smart enough, savvy enough, well read enough, educated enough, charming enough. Much of this was probably because I was very naive, and didn't really know how to behave in an office. This made me a terrible assistant, which in turn made me a terrible junior book editor.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

“I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti”

“Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go.”

“Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!”

“Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.”