"When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!"

“For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other.”

“I live in the moment.”

“a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.”

“... he who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is...”

“If there's any way that I can be of service to people who are going through something painful in their lives, even though the witch world is heightened, then that's great.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Life is God's novel. Let him write it.”

Source : "Voices for Life" edited by Dom Moraes, 1975.

“And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.”

“I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.”

Source : Cornell Woolrich, Francis M. Nevins (2005). “Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories”, p.22, Carroll & Graf