"You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims."

“To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.”

“I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.”

“A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.”

“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”

Source : Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

“You can't keep a squirrel on the ground.”

Source : Mary Lasswell (2016). “Suds in Your Eye”, p.114, Open Road Media

“Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.”

“I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.”

“My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.”