The greatest photographers are those who have learned to see the world as it is, and then to see it as it might be.

You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

真正的作家永远是一个流亡者，即使在自己的国家也是如此。

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

"Home is not just a place, it's a feeling woven through our memories."

At twenty-one, I was a divorced single mother. At thirty, I was struggling to feed my children. At forty, I was starting over in a new country. At fifty, I was rebuilding my career. At sixty, I walked the runway at Fashion Week. Life begins at every age—if you dare to make a plan.