Despite the rejected book proposals, the discouraging auditions and the lost elections, many a man or woman still looks in the mirror and sees a star.

ECONOMIST: Howard Gotlieb

The stories were written, so to speak, in front of a mirror, by a man hoping to drown the tiny, shivering thrills of the chronic bookworm with the low snarl of a more universal emotion, that of dread.

NEWYORKER: Fright Nights

Sometimes I would overhear myself in the act of speech, like a man who suddenly sees himself in a mirror.

NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance

But in another interview with the Sunday Mirror, he said he was a changed man and would no longer follow women.

BBC: Stalking made me suspect - George

Michael, who would ascend higher than any black artist in music history, learned a bitter lesson: Even at the top of the mountain, there is only the man in the mirror.

CNN: Commentary: When the white glove waved