I think the responsibility of running a huge business, which happens if you become a successful designer, probably makes you more careful.

I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.

There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids.

I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.

The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.