"At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles."
"I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants."
"In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements."
"When I was young, I made all of my own clothes."
"I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me."
"I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place."
"I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in."
"I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio."
"Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider."
"High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage."
"This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting."
"It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself."
"I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us."
"If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way."
"The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same."
"Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand."
"Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics."
"We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me."
"I was writing a lot even as a kid."
"I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child."
"I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing."
"I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake."
"My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair."
"A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair."
"Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease."
