I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge of table manners. And that goes for both men and women.

With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.

A good party is one that is designed to entertain and bond friends. The bad parties I've been to are the ones that are held to impress other people.

Often times if you're bored, the other person is probably bored too.

I use a Blackberry. I'm so behind on mobile communication technology, I think a smartwatch may be too far a leap.

One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.

Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

As a coach I think that's one of the things we have to exude: the ability to move on regardless of the result.

Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

People are icebergs. So much of us is underneath.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.