Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H. L. Mencken

In glades they meet skull after skullWhere pine cones lay-the rusted gun,Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coatAnd cuddled up skeleton;And scores of such. Some start as in dreams,And comrades lost bemoan;By the edge of those wilds Stonewall had charged-But the year and the Man were gone.

Herman Melville

I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.

Whitney Houston

Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

Fran Lebowitz

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

Jeffrey Kluger

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

Maximilian Schell

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

Sir Edwin Arnold

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

Julie Andrews

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Charles Baudelaire

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Alexander Chase

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

Martina Navratilova