“I’m back into fashion which is great! Because they do all the terrible work of production for me.”

In Miami they’re building all these hideous monstrosities. It’s just so easy to be an architect, once you’ve got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There’s nothing creative in any of them.

I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.

I have worked with some horrible idiots in my life. You learn the pattern of how architects work and the thing is not to fight it. Just to be very quiet, let them get on with it and let them really mess it up.

People lost the capacity of using their brain. It’s all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the labels.

To the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.

Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.

Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.

Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

I don’t think any rapper can go back. You can be a car salesman, a bank teller – I mean, really good jobs, and people are still gonna look at you and be like, ‘You used to rap; what happened?’

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run