Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.

When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.'