Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

Men are always ready to fight

I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

I love how much dance is sneaking its way back into society.

that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep

Everything you know could already be wrong.

Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment.

If you are doing nothing, God doesn't need to give you any help in doing nothing. Go out and do something impossible for Jesus, and then God will help you.

I'm always in range of a microphone. I even have a studio at home.