“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I’m wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it’s nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.”

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

When in doubt, wear red.

Fashion can be bought by anybody; style takes discernment, it has to do with individuality.

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.

If you manage to build a sustainable product, revenue will follow. A lot of startups fail because they concentrate on incremental innovations, increasing user base, and monetisation before strengthening the core of their business.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else.

With Anglo-American capitalism increasingly under attack, those who believe in the power of free markets and enterprise to create wealth and social progress must stand up and be counted and champion our way of life.

The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.

It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.

Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

Russia is now becoming increasingly nervous about a more permanent U.S. presence in Central Asia.