"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."

“throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.”

“There are so many kinds of love, and they're all very intense for me.”

“As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me.”

“I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they’ll catch up.”

Source : "'It’s Hucking Yourself Downhill Super-Fast'". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. December 30, 2013.

“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”

Source : Barbara Pym (1982). “Less than angels”, HarperCollins Publishers

“No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.”

“We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.”

Source : Eric Weiner (2008). “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World”, p.174, Hachette UK

“It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.”