"No collection without compensation."

“Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.”

“If you think you can just go out and ask all the doctors in the world about what the did to all the patients and you think we can connect that into something useful, go talk to someone who has done that because we can't.”

“No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.”

“The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.”

“God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.”

“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.”

Source : Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.”

Source : Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

“If we're talking music I could go on and on and on.”