There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle... →
Richard Ford
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature... →
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.
For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work... →
But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because... →
Tom Ford
I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.
If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it.... →