"Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a ***** mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail."

“Zombies are the blue-collar monsters”

“In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.”

“I just feel - specifically about that holiday - why is it just one day that you have to tell the person that you love how much you love them? I think that is a little silly. I am much more the girl that likes the spontaneous.”

“We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.”

Source : Energy Times interview, www.energytimes.com. July-August 2013.

“My girlfriend said she wanted me to tease her, so I said "Alright, fatty."”

“We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.”

“I like the desperado aspect of essays, the free lance, that mercenary kind of thing, so I just do it, without asking anyone's permission. I've never written a query letter, I don't pitch pieces, I have no market in mind, I don't spend any time trying to figure out where I might fit in.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.

“When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.”