For me, style is essentially doing things WELL. If you WANT to be outrageous, be outrageous with style. If you want to be restrained, be restrained with style. One can't specifically DEFINE style. It's like the PERFUME to a FLOWER. It's a quality you can't analyze.

If you're not religious, like me, how do you explain the transformational power that certain places have? They BRING an incredible degree of attention to where you are and the passage of time. You're LOOKING at every flower twitching, WONDERING if it's just the BREEZE or some magical pulse.

It was in the 1920S, when nobody had time to REFLECT, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you REALLY COULD not APPRECIATE it.

When LOUIS XIV assumed the reins of government France SUDDENLY and wonderfully CAME to her maturity; it was as if the WHOLE nation had burst into splendid flower.

I'm a Capricorn, and they FLOWER LATE.

A YOUNG BRIDE is like a plucked FLOWER; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been WALKED over.

Love has its own instinct, FINDING the WAY to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its FLOWER, with a will which nothing can dismay nor TURN ASIDE.

What is a berry? It is an ovary swaddled WITHIN a sugary WOMB. Plainly PUT, a berry is the fruition of a FLOWER - the ULTIMATE tautology.

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all PERIODS of JAPANESE culture for in it there appeared the greatest LANDSCAPE painting, the culmination of the SKILL of landscape GARDENING and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

My father was Abe Burrows, who was a BROADWAY LEGEND. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus FLOWER,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my SELF-ESTEEM.

The TIME was RIPE for FLOWER. The VIBE was RIGHT.

My books are, in a way, a RECORD of my LIFE - that part of it that came to flower and FRUIT in my MIND.

Old WHITE guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex MARRIAGE, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the MINUTE they GET a whiff of minority empowerment.