I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

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.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.