Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories seemed to be covered in gossemer, fading behind a curtain of time and forgiveness.

One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not shine with such luster.

The privileged, we’ll see time and again, are processed more by people, the masses by machines.

You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.

The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.

There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you had to do something about that even if there were five other guys.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

You never know what people are going to respond to or want in your work, and you just hope for the best when you design a collection, and try to make it as well-rounded as you can.

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

I was never one to stand on a soap box and say, "This is how you need to live your life!" It was never about that.