Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.

We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

Time is the chronological breakdown of life

He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in.

I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

When I was in my 20s I wasn't sure of myself. Now I can really stretch. I don't have to stay in the box. At this point I can say to myself, So what if I fall, so what? I'm going to get back up.

But Obama is a cool cat. We've seen that before: when he suffered reverses he didn't react immediately. He took a couple of days to react.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.

When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game.