“A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed. ”

“The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.”

“I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.”

“The student, balancing between the deep knowledge of the specialist and the broad curiosity of the generalist, must develop, largely on their own, their capacity to be conscious of past and emerging idioms, to see their own work in the context of developing styles, and – most difficult of all – to identify how their own personal style can co-exist with the restrictions of utility and the conventions of genre.”

“Girls have white wings. The wings with which to protect their loved ones. I'm going to embrace you with those wings.”

“We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”