Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.

Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.

Silences can be as different as sounds.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a sense of outrage.