What amazes me is when I see people in their twenties who have families or live a life that seems of a much older person. But that's such a demographic, a socio-economic, cultural, class thing.

I've always been interested in tht notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

Being in the entertainment industry in L.A. is the equivalent to being in the publishing industry in New York. You don't ever have to hangout with anybody else.

There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?

Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.

Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally — and sometimes maddeningly — who we are.

In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.

My goal in life is to be content. By that I don't mean "fine" or "basically satisfied." I don't mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I'm in the right life.

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.

We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a how to for success. You build both, one brick at a time.

Media is Munchausen by proxy.

New York is such an awful place. No wonder it's so crowded. No wonder it's almost impossible to leave.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.