I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.

Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.