You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing.

Don't let technology dictate your life.

Never judge. Step in their shoes.

I work too hard, I'd be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can't even keep a plant!

One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way.

Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule.

I think it's good to have the alone time. Well, I kind of have to, because I have to be alone in order to work, so I have alone time. And then I go on tour and I have being-around-people time.

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

There's always time to do things that you're passionate about. ... If my name helps get something out there that I believe in then I am going to produce it. ... Design is really my true love.

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.

At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.

We are born male. We must learn to be men.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.