Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. – Mary Wortley Montagu
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected. – Louise Brown
No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where Im this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck. – Alexander Wang
