I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The first thing I remember owning was a Pierre Cardin jumpsuit when I was 9 or 10; of course I didn't actually buy it, but I fell in love with it.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.