Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.
If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.
There is a crisis on the Right. It sees the Jewish and democratic state as a democracy for the Jews. This is something I cannot countenance.
Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.
Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside.
There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on further listen it's not as good as something they did a couple of years ago, but it's just not in their sights at that particular time.
I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly.
There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
When something's made in the smallest volume - as a one-off couture piece - or in large quantities, deep care is critical to determine authentic, successful design and, ultimately, manufacture.
Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.
When I worked with Billie Jean King and Craig Kardon, and we would be working on something, Billie would show up and say, 'What about this?' Neither one of us had seen it.
The word 'crunk' means energy. 'Crunk' is the past tense of crank. So if you crank something up, you are getting it started and getting it going. So 'crunk' is when it's going... when it's off the hook.
Sometimes I'm kind of cranky coming to see something. I saw the Mona Lisa when it was in L.A., saw it for 13 seconds and had to move on.
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
