"I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer."

“The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.”

“Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.”

Source : Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.14, Vintage Canada

“Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1994). “Dawn Powell at Her Best”

“Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.”

“In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.”

“The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.”

“There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently”

“Fred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn't sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced like a cheetah runs with the grace of the first creation. I mean, that first week. On one of those days God created Fred Astaire. Saturday maybe, since that was the day for the pictures. When you s Fred you felt better about everything. He was a cure. He was bottled in the films and all around the earth, from Castlebar to Cairo, he healed the halt and the blind. That's the gospel truth. St. Fred. Fred the Redeemer.”