You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
- Tom Wolfe
- Tom Wolfe
What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
- Ralph Ellison
- Ralph Ellison
There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.
- Irwin Shaw
- Irwin Shaw
Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?
- Neil Jordan
- Neil Jordan
We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.
- George Moore
- George Moore
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
- Tom Bodett
- Tom Bodett
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anaïs Nin
- Anaïs Nin