Nick Paumgarten:

Before 4 Times Square and the decade or so at 20 West Forty-third Street, the magazine spent more than fifty years at 25 West Forty-third Street. It was acceptable in those days to pass a woman on the street and say, "Great hat."

L.P. Hartley:

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

Liliana Segura, in 2014:

The truth is, yes, even "hello" can feel like an unwelcome demand.

Clarinda Harriss:

The Tragedy of Hats is that you can never see the one you're wearing,
that no one believes the lies they tell,
that they grow to be more famous than you,
that you could die in one but you won't be buried in it.