You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.

I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

I take this continent with me into the grave.

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.

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.