I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

People are afraid because I'm candid. They're always worried I'm going to get into trouble.

There are a lot of people who get support from a thriving business.

I'm a New York story.

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

I've been making shoes my whole life.

So much of design is context.

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Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.

We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.

I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

You don't need to be accepted by everyone else to get reaccepted by the one who made you.

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.