Nothing you love is lost. Not really. If they're inside you, then they're still yours.

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change.

Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.

I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.