The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.

I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink two times a year. When it's my birthday, and when it's not my birthday.

People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren's dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.

We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.