Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy.

Sylvia had begun her month in New York with princessy pomp and fanfare….Her departure on June 27 was entirely different. She left New York shaken, depleted, and utterly alone.

...she could not stick by the golden mean...was always anxious to experiment in extremes...to find out what was enough by indulging herself in too much." (Gordon Lameyer)

Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.

These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervous and fluttery but completely alluring- the new face of urban femininity.

New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.

our value/belief system acts as aconditioning factor for our thinking pattern.

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

Paul Scholes and Gary Neville are the centrefolds of Man United

Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

The best way to learn how to become trustworthy is to study other trustworthy people.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

You look different. You look unsettling.’ ‘You look like you,’ he said. ‘You with the volume turned up.

I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach.

Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.