Thing Quotes

I need to tell the things that are important but which don’t make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.

That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.

Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m super-grateful.

The things that stress me out haven’t changed. But I don’t wanna lose anything. So I thought that at least I would change. I’m lucky…that I’m afraid of losing something.

All the things I thought I was – simple and plain and sometime funny – are very small words.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

Most wonderful things are unconscious.

And I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

When I took the job as Estée Lauder’s creative director, the first thing I did was go into the archives! I love taking our heritage and making it modern.

Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.