And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.

Fretting about a dearth of randomness seems like worrying that humanity might use up its last reserves of ignorance.

It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.

Work done by you with unconditional love and pure devotion goes straight in the category of divine and immortal craft.

Superiority is always detested.

I know quite a few eco designers who build dresses out of old couture gowns. They disassemble, 'upcycle,' and reuse them in extraordinary ways. To me, that's a sustainable way of doing things.

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

I've been singing one kind of genre for a long time but have always tried to push to new auras about picking new songs or the same kind of genre but trying to sing it differently, treating it differently.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team.

For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

Back in the day, I used to watch 'The Cajun Chef' with Justin Wilson. His mixing would go one way, and his stomach would go the other.

There are some 'Star Treks' I love, and there are some I don't love.

I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Stanford did a lot for me, and I've always felt indebted. It was a lenient and productive environment.

I couldn't sell air conditioners on a 98-degree day. When I demonstrated them in a showroom, I pushed the wrong button and blew the circuit.