I never had to answer to anyone

Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.

I love to play, I love to dance, I love to party . . . I'm a liver. I think what I need to learn is how to find the calmness, the centeredness.

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.