"Lolitas value independence and beauty above all else."

“Can't win without talent, you know.”

“Making art is different for everyone.”

Source : "China Chow Talks Season 2 Of ‘Work Of Art’". Interview with Huffingtonpost, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.

“How you spend your days is how you spend your life.”

“I try to listen to people, coaches and other pitchers, and see what they do and how they try to do it. Then I try to find a way that's comfortable for me.”

“At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.”

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.”

“Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.”

“I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.”