Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far.

We need to theorize the meaning of beauty in our lives so that we can educate for critical consciousness, talking through the issues: how we acquire and spend money, how we feel about beauty, what the place of beauty is in our lives when we lack material privilege and even basic resources for living, the meaning and significance of luxury, and the politics of envy.

Bell Hooks

When they searched my car, they said that they found a gasoline canister and I think duct tape. Who wouldn't have a gasoline canister on them when driving 3,000 miles across country?

Sherman Austin

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Bob Dylan

I don't work at being ordinary.

Paul McCartney

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

Janet Street-Porter

When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

Kate Atkinson

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately-many people will help you unintentionally.

Santha Rama Rau

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Robert Jacob Goodkin

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Colin Wilson

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

Ernest Hemingway