...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

If haters hadn't made me angry and made me practice, I wouldn't have gotten this good.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

My friends all say I’m going to be Secretary of State, [but] I don’t see how that would be much different from the job I have now

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.

I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.

Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.