• "There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch"

- Bette Davis

• "People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown"

- Chuck Palahniuk

• "Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known"

- Chuck Palahniuk (in Invisible Monsters)

• "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every 6 months"

- Oscar Wilde

• The search for the beloved is full of paradoxes.

We want to be who we are when we are our best self, and sometimes because we have met that self when we are in love, we believe that self only exists in the presence of the other. So we hold on to the other and lose ourselves, forgetting that love is partly of this world and partly of some other place.