“I don’t know how to build the things I design and make. I am absolutely more and more humbled and respectful of the people who know the intricacies of how the technology works and how to build things and how things work.” —Es Devlin apple.co/4999dwG

“I’m working with a lot of young people, and they want to have an exciting, interesting, engaged life. That’s why they got into journalism. It wasn’t for the dough. They deserve to make a living, but the whole business model has exploded.” —David Remnick apple.co/3PT9tZD

NYT is framing the OJ Simpson murders/trial as having been an 'inflection point on race.' I have always seen it as an 'inflection point' on the cultural acceptance of male violence against women.

Thank you Stephan Spencer!

“My desire to live as a woman I could now see was a coherent phenomenon consistently just under the surface of my nominal life for all those decades, despite my best efforts to pretend it wasn't there.” —Lucy Sante apple.co/3vz0NAO

“I was such a slow bloomer. Anyone who considers themselves to be a slow bloomer, please join a very big club. I didn’t have a clue. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I knew I liked reading, and I loved making artwork. That’s all I knew.” —Es Devlin apple.co/4999dwG

“I grew up in a very dull, conventional environment with a mother who was quite ill & a father who soon would be quite ill. There was a certain desire to be another, to enter the big world. That was the animating spirit of everything I did.” —David Remnick apple.co/3PT9tZD

“I think reporters discover this very early on or anybody that has a medium that they can put between themselves and the world, a canvas, a notebook. It’s a form of permission. It was very suggestive of something exhilarating.” —David Remnick apple.co/3PT9tZD

“I’m calmer having made the book because it’s a way to gather the threads of myself that I have quite purposefully threaded in life and time. The book has become a lens to see what I’ve been doing. It’s the most important thing I’ve made.” —Es Devlin apple.co/4999dwG

“My greatest achievement is that I really only wrote about stuff I was passionate about. I did a lot of work for hire, but there’s very little that I would not embrace. Not that my writing was always tip-top, but I never had to shed my soul.” —Lucy Sante apple.co/3vz0NAO

“The logistics of a touring concert are brutal. People have to be able to put it in and get it out of a truck in a really tight amount of time and get it up and safe. So, there’s quite a lot of constraint to that aspect of my practice.” —Es Devlin apple.co/4999dwG

Since 1998, David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker and has written hundreds of pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe and Profiles of Barack Obama, Katharine Graham, Bruce Springsteen and more. apple.co/3PT9tZD

“I was hiding. Gender was only a part of it. I was also hiding the fact that I was this nobody from nowhere, a dropout and with no inherited educational status in my family. I had a major case of imposter syndrome for so much of my life.” —Lucy Sante apple.co/3vz0NAO

“I feel that humans are their most vibrant when they’re curious, and they don’t quite know. You don’t quite know enough. You’re just a little bit out of your depth.” —Es Devlin apple.co/4999dwG

“I think you can respond to the space and the play, how the play, artwork, or music meets the space. I think you respond to a moment. Not just the moment when the piece was written, the moment that you are communicating with a group of people.” —Es Devlin apple.co/4999dwG

“Sometimes decisions that you make, even if they feel a bit arbitrary, like what time a studio closes or whether you like the feel and smell, trust your instincts on things like that because it adds up to a day-to-day and to a life.” —Es Devlin apple.co/4999dwG

“I strongly believe in taking a conceptual approach. My book is structured in a very particular way, which gives the voice room to move. The fact that it’s a kind of formalistic device unleashes the emotions rather than restricts them.” —Lucy Sante apple.co/3vz0NAO

“It took me out of the immediate constant supervision of my parents. I was in this big city, and everything seemed available. Manhattan showed me the world outside. I must have started thinking of my family as a prison very early.” —Lucy Sante apple.co/3vz0NAO

“The opening night was like being in a film studio. Everybody was holding their phone because this was new. And listen, that’s fine. Everybody becoming a filmmaker is rather beautiful in a way, but it does preclude dancing.” —Es Devlin apple.co/4999dwG

“…I was just getting the thought and not the words, and the words are what really structures the thought, and that can only happen on the page.” (2/2)—Lucy Sante apple.co/3vz0NAO