The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.

Preppy clothes are built to last, since they certainly won't go out of style.

Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

You can't regret what you can't remember.

Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.

In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.

A tip: if you're invited to your friend's country club to go the lost and found bin and pretend that you left something there. Next thing you know, you have a fabulous sweater.

Sarcasm mascarades as the Preppy's sense of humor.

Like everything else, Preppiness begins in the home.

It is the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child to wear khaki.

If you tell a friend a secret, she will keep the secret by telling only one other person.

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins

Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

You have always been deciding the truth of your life. It is how you decide to feel about it. There is no need to try to work out what something means. You decide what it means.

You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.