“Never cut what you can untie.”

-Joseph Joubert

“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”

-Francoise Sagan

“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.”

 -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot”

-Charlie Chaplin

“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”

 -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.”

-Noah Webster

“You don’t know what it is to fall into the pit, to be despised, mocked, abandoned, sneered at – to be an outcast! To find the door shut against one, to have to creep in by hideous byways, afraid every moment lest the mask should be stripped from one’s face, and all the while to hear the laughter, the horrible laughter of the world, a thing more tragic than all the tears the world has ever shed. You don’t know what it is. One pays for one’s sins, and then one pays again, and all one’s life one pays. You must never know that…I may have wrecked my own life, but I will not let you wreck yours. ”

-Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere’s Fan

“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

-Charles Peguy

“Fashion isn’t a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It’s a whim. You don’t need it. You want it.”

-Marc Jacobs, January 2012 issue of Vogue