Lisa Brennan-Jobs

When I was growing up in California, being vegetarians differentiated my mother and me from normal, held us away from the masses.

I think you save things from your past that you don't quite understand, and you put them in a box, and you save them for later until you can unwrap them and try to understand what they meant.

When I was in elementary school, I watched 'Cinema Paradiso' 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a place, even the bum who thought he owned the piazza. Eccentricities were celebrated, and no one was isolated.

I didn't have the clothes that a kid with a famous, rich dad would have. I didn't have the house. I didn't have the mannerisms. I didn't have the sense of entitlement. And I don't mean that in a bad way: I just - we didn't have the stuff.

Money can be detrimental for kids.

Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father.

Looking at font serifs is fun.

I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn't be.

I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'

My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.

In California, my mother had raised me mostly alone. We didn't have many things, but she is warm, and we were happy. We moved a lot. We rented.

Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of my hand.