"If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional."

“When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.”

“I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote down that what they sought was an escape from an old world which dictated their conscience and established their merit based on who their parents.”

“Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.”

“What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?”

“There is always time for a nap.”

Source : Suzy Becker (1990). “All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat”, Workman Publishing Company

“If you deny the reality of your body or your life, you'll never be able to dress any of it well - even the parts you love. You have to see it all to work with any of it.”

Source : Stacy London (2012). “The Truth About Style”, p.11, Penguin

“When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.”

“She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.”

Source : Anne Stuart (2012). “Ice Storm”, p.246, Harlequin