"I walked exclusively on the sidewalks. I was a city girl. I've never been countrified."

“I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.”

“I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family”

“Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.”

“If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.”

Source : "Interview with Callie Khouri, Director of Mad Money". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2008.

“One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.”

Source : Kenneth Clark (1969). “Civilisation”

“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

“I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it!”

“The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.”