My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
Things explain each other, not themselves.
The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.