It’s annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you’re not sure which half they know. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? – François VI de la Rochefoucault
Time, the earth, and death are living things, as stories are — so long as other living things exist to feed them, and for them to nourish in their turn. – Robert Bringhurst, 1995, Introduction to The Dreamer Awakes by Alice Kane
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. – Coco Chanel
Moby Dick – that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed thats how my book begins, too, but I hadnt noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly. – Michael Chabon
