Having success at an early age gave me more of a sense of what's important in life rather than always driving to make it.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.

Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves

Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.

Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.

Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself.

What I do is about living. It's about living the best life you can and enjoying the fullness of the life around you- from what you wear, to the way you live, to the way you love.

Personal style is about a sense of yourself, a sense of what you believe in and wearing what you like.

Enjoy your family. Do things that you like to do. Stay strong. That's the secret to remaining happy.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

Your weakest version and highest self both live within you. Yes they do.

No man wants to marry, Finnula. There are just some women they can’t have any other way, and so it is a sacrifice willingly made in order to attain a particularly choice—

I know that's a secret for it's whispered everywhere.

Money is not a fund of knowledge.

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

I know hedge-fund guys that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and pay no tax. And I want to lower [tax] for the middle income. The middle class in this country has been decimated.

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.