“Fashion is that by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal." (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"To live outside the law, you must be honest." (Bob Dylan, "Absolutely Sweet Marie")

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” (Aristotle Onassis)

“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.” (Edna Woolman Chase)

"The sleep of the laboring person is sweet..." (Ecclesiastes 5:12)

“Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.” (Eric Bently)

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Saint Paul)

“All music is folk music; I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.” (Louis Armstrong)

"Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her." (Helen Rowland)

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.” (Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast)

“I don’t want anyone to challenge my right to sound completely mad.” (Duke Ellington)

"We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and usually it is what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct." (Diane de Poitiers [1500-1566], noblewoman, courtier and mistress to French King Henry II)

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” (The Gospel of Thomas, a non-canonical, Coptic-language, gnostic gospel consisting of 114 sayings from [they say] Jesus; later suppressed as heresy by early church fathers, only to be rediscovered in 1940s Upper Egypt)

"A kiss that is never tasted forever and ever is wasted." (from the 1934 song "For All We Know" with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis, music by J. Fred Coots, and sung by Billie Holiday on 1958's Lady in Satin, her penultimate record)

"I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world." (Mary Todd Lincoln)

It's hard to put the coke spoon to your nose when you're doing the Downward-facing Dog.