I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. So the fantasy corners of America seem so atmospheric because you 've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books.

Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time.

The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet.