Alice James

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it's so easy to buy good style if you have the money.

It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.