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"London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it."
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"My goal is to read as much as possible books, my dream is to meet the snow person, the storm person and to make something together. I will be the rain, Snowy will be the snow, Stormy will be the storm - it's not so complicated as far I see."

"The sky is the limit only if you have a problem with reaching for the stars."

"Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him."

"Fear is not my portion, limitation is not my portion for that reason I will dream massive dreams and I will continue to dream until the end of my road."

"To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path."

"Dream big, but stay humble."

"When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame."

"As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle."

"Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure -- one that leads me back home."

"One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence."
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"You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine."


"Eternity is a ham and two people (also given as 'Eternity is two people and a ham') is an old quip from the days when a ham was huge-far more than two people could finish. Irma Rombauer mentions this line in her famous cookbook, The Joy of Cooking."


"I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, 'How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree."


"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."


"She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age."


"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."


"It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day."


"Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night."
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