"One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare"

“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”

“Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”

“You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.”

“What you can't pay back you pay forward.”

Source : Jo Walton (2006). “Farthing”, p.165, Macmillan

“At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.”

Source : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

“Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.”

“I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.”

Source : Moviehole Interview, moviehole.net. December 18, 2006.

“I was always more of an academic than a jock.”

Source : Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.