"I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief."

“Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors.”

“If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.”

“Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.”

“If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.”

Source : Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell, 290 U.S. 398, (483), 1934.

“Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.”

Source : "The Irrationality of Love and Art" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2011.

“India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.”

“Honestly, I wasn't that girl in high school who people spread rumors about.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.”

Source : O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.776, ShandonPress