I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or What size do you wear? or Whos your couturier? They ask me about really deep things and I love that. – Shirley MacLaine
[I]n the gloomy month of February…. The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time… – Washington Irving, Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography, 1849