"Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul. Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment."

“The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.”

Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.318, New York Review of Books

“Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.”

“I'm a crybaby, which means I barricade myself in my house and scream for awhile, and when it subsides enough that I can leave, I go for a run. Tears make great fuel. Night runs, or rainy days, are best for this as you don't get as many questioning looks.”

Source : "Actor Allison McAtee: The best in everyone, being a crybaby, and practicing japa meditation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!”

“For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.”

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.147, Penguin

“I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.”

“Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.”

Source : "The Democratic Party’s Two-Facedness of Race Relations", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

“We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.”