Do I make fashion mistakes? Yes, but I won't say what.
It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.
Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?
Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free. . . the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing to worry about. Fact Two: Fact One applies only to cataracts on the eyes in somebody else's head.
I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"
I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.
I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
Courage is ignoring your fear.