I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

“Life proceeds, it enrages.”

“My little beast, my eyes, my favorite stolen egg. Listen. To live is to be mark…”

“There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that …”

“The war's [World War II] end has left America with loads of get-up-and-go, and …”