I was working in a family business-the fur business - and I hated it. I was reading the New York Times want ads, and I saw a photographer's assistant job in Vogue. Things went from there.

If you go to shows today, you have 16 celebrities sitting there, all these people who have nothing to do with fashion.

If I knew how and where to sacrifice myself, I must know how and where to save myself.

Just when you thought you knew everything about someone, they had to go one better.

We do not need to attend classroom training programs for everything, our observation opens the windows of knowledge around us.

Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!

Why do we tend to treasure our health best, only when it is in jeopardy?

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high.