I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Don't ask any questions and you won't hear any lies.

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

I don't think I can ever escape from music.

Life is fun if you just find out how.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

I prefer to do absolutely nothing. I love to relax. But, if there's a beach around that's where you'll find me.