A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

One of the key things for me about Madame Walker's life is that she really does represent this first generation out of slavery when black people were reinventing themselves, and as a woman who was the first child in her family born free, she was trying to figure out a way, and she moved from Delta, Louisiana.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

No 13-year-old or over should ever be seen in trousers that finish above the ankle. It doesn't matter how good your legs are, or if you're on a beach in Bermuda where they invented the things.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Learning Jimmy Carr riffs off by heart is not the way to anyone's heart, unless you're Jimmy Carr. And remember, the two most attractive things in a man is a sense of danger and being able to make a girl feel really safe.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I don't remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point.

A. Balasubramaniam
A. Balasubramaniam

I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your work so much, why deal with where to show, how to show, what to do? If the artist finds the right gallery which respects their work and gives them that freedom to do whatever they want to do, the artist can focus on his work.

A. E. van Vogt
A. E. van Vogt

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.